Posted July 26, 2018 I'm building a new computer for gaming mostly, but also a little bit of everything. I originally had a 1tb 979 evo in my build plans, but then thought to myself, why dont I get 2 500 GB drives in raid 0? Faster response and the same size for about the same price. After that I got to thinking about those great optane drives and lo and behold the last gen optane is about $100 more than the 2 evo's. I'm not sure which would be faster though. Any thoughts? Edit I understand the storage space difference but which would be faster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 26, 2018 nVME RAID is sketchy as hell and when it does work it really doesn't give you much more performance. I'd get a single 1TB 970 EVO or 500GB 970 PRO CPU: Core i9 12900K || CPU COOLER : Corsair H100i Pro XT || MOBO : ASUS Prime Z690 PLUS D4 || GPU: PowerColor RX 6800XT Red Dragon || RAM: 4x8GB Corsair Vengeance (3200) || SSDs: Samsung 970 Evo 250GB (Boot), Crucial P2 1TB, Crucial MX500 1TB (x2), Samsung 850 EVO 1TB || PSU: Corsair RM850 || CASE: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini || MONITOR: Acer Predator X34A (1440p 100hz), HP 27yh (1080p 60hz) || KEYBOARD: GameSir GK300 || MOUSE: Logitech G502 Hero || AUDIO: Bose QC35 II || CASE FANS : 2x Corsair ML140, 1x BeQuiet SilentWings 3 120 || LAPTOP: Dell XPS 15 7590 TABLET: iPad Pro PHONE: Galaxy S9 She/they Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 26, 2018 2 minutes ago, OrbitalBuzzsaw said: nVME RAID is sketchy as hell and when it does work it really doesn't give you much more performance. I'd get a single 1TB 970 EVO or 500GB 970 PRO it depends on which platform he is in, on x399 it scales very well, but just for gaming i would stay with a single large drive than raiding smaller ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 26, 2018 Author 4 minutes ago, cj09beira said: it depends on which platform he is in, on x399 it scales very well, but just for gaming i would stay with a single large drive than raiding smaller ones I'll be running an intel 8700k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 26, 2018 This isn't the early 2000's. Raid 0 on fast SSDs makes zero sense. You aren't getting any real world improvement to speed and are introducing an extra element to go wrong. It's kind of like a RAM drive. Sure the high numbers look pretty, but you ultimately aren't gaining anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted July 26, 2018 Author 4 minutes ago, Mooshi said: This isn't the early 2000's. Raid 0 on fast SSDs makes zero sense. You aren't getting any real world improvement to speed and are introducing an extra element to go wrong. It's kind of like a RAM drive. Sure the high numbers look pretty, but you ultimately aren't gaining anything. Well spoken. I actually haven't looked into raid drives since the early 2000's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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