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RAID 1 or RAID 0?

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Hello everyone!

 

I just finished building my PC, I have an SSD and two HDDs. I'm a bit uncertain about whether I should do RAID 0 or RAID 1. I know what they do, but I'm just unsure if I should go with RAID 1/0. How's the performance in RAID 0, will there be a noticeable difference?

 

Any replies will be appreciated.

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The way it works is:

 

RAID 1 is for redundancy. You will notice a slight performance decrease, but both of the hard drives will be carbon copies of each other. So, if one dies, the other will have everything on it.

 

RAID 0 is for speed and capacity. There will be a performance increase, of course of which depends on the drives and interface, and both of the drives hold half of the information each. If a drive dies here, all information is lost.

 

My opinion is that you should go RAID 1 for the redundancy and keep RAID 0 for the SSDs. Remember, for RAID, both of the drives need to match in capacity or the largest drive will shrink to the smallest drive's capacity.

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raid 0 is just less than twice the performance with no redundancy raid 1 has redundancy with no speed increase at all

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The difference isn't that noticeable but if I were you I would go raid 0, however it really depends on preference.

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Raid 0 = Performance, double,

Raid 1 = reliability, one drive fails, don't worry, it's mirrored on the other one

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