Raid 0 or optane?

[SamuraiJack]

I have two,  2tb hard drives that I combined with windows formatting into one HDD for games and an SSD for windows. I'm thinking about buying a 16bg optane memory for the hdd's. but do you thing i will get better speeds if i just put the hdds in raid 0?    Raid 0 or optane? 

 

 

 

 

[Streetguru]

4 minutes ago, SamuraiJack said:

I have two,  2tb hard drives that I combined with windows formatting into one HDD for games and an SSD for windows. I'm thinking about buying a 16bg optane memory for the hdd's. but do you thing i will get better speeds if i just put the hdds in raid 0?    Raid 0 or optane? 

 

 

 

 

Just use an SSD caching software for both drives with some cheap 128GB SSDs Or maybe you only need one SSD for both...

 

Optane generally isn't worth it and RAID 0 is going to lose all of your data at some point.

[kb5zue]

Don't use either.  Optane isn't worth what Intel says it is and in reality creates more problems than it is worth.  As for the raid 0, you can do just as good with a single SSD and not run the risk of losing your stuff if one of the raid drives should fail.  Just go with an SSD of something like a 128 or 256 and you will be really satisfied with the move.  If you can afford it, go with a 512 and use the other drives as backup of something along those lines.

[Speed Weed]

9 minutes ago, kb5zue said:

Don't use either.  Optane isn't worth what Intel says it is and in reality creates more problems than it is worth.  As for the raid 0, you can do just as good with a single SSD and not run the risk of losing your stuff if one of the raid drives should fail.  Just go with an SSD of something like a 128 or 256 and you will be really satisfied with the move.  If you can afford it, go with a 512 and use the other drives as backup of something along those lines.

I thought Raid 0 requires 2 identical drives? 

[Electronics Wizardy]

15 minutes ago, DaPhuc said:

I thought Raid 0 requires 2 identical drives? 

you can use any drives, but haveing identical ones reduces issues.

[SupaKomputa]

Raid 0 on 7200 hdd won't match the speed of a single ssd, there's no seek time in ssd. Everything is lightning fast.

So it's kinda bizzare if you compare mech drive with solid state, especially for caching.

Raid 0 meant for multiplying the output / seek time of mechanical hdd, and back when there's no ssd it was doing great.

Now there's no reason to use it. Use raid when you want redundancy, data security, which mean sacrificing 1 of your hdd capacity.

[kirashi]

1 hour ago, SamuraiJack said:

I have two,  2tb hard drives that I combined with windows formatting into one HDD for games and an SSD for windows. I'm thinking about buying a 16bg optane memory for the hdd's. but do you thing i will get better speeds if i just put the hdds in raid 0?    Raid 0 or optane? 

Neither; buy a 250GB or larger boot SSD and experience a drive that "just works" and doesn't make you want to tear your hair out like trying to configure Optane does, nor start from scratch like when a RAID0 array fails. Besides, a single SSD is faster than a RAID0 of 2x HDD's anyway.