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Two Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSDs in RAID 0?

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Yup possible.

 

I run two 128gb Samsung 830's in RAID0 

Just DONT touch from the default raid rom sizes or windows will hate you.

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sure.

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This is kind of off topic, but in real world application, the EVO is a lot better for the money.

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This is kind of off topic, but in real world application, the EVO is a lot better for the money.

 

EVO's cannot Hardware RAID.

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EVO's cannot Hardware RAID.

Ahh, then discard everything I just said, sorry.

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Why do people feel the need to get two SSD's as to one bigger one? :S

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Why do people feel the need to get two SSD's as to one bigger one? :S

Because... it's faster.

 

What would be faster? Have 1 person shooting one person, or two people shooting 1 person? I hope that analogy makes sense :P

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Get a 250GB EVO , , Raid 0 is really not going to give you any extra performance these days. 

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Get a 250GB EVO , , Raid 0 is really not going to give you any extra performance these days. 

Um... yes it is? Why wouldn't it? You'd be writing data to two different drives, having a seemingly 1Gb/s SSD.

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Um... yes it is? Why wouldn't it? You'd be writing data to two different drives, having a seemingly 1Gb/s SSD.

 

I can confirm. Yes it gives you better benchmarks but no real world difference in load times etc... I only did it because I wanted to increase my size.

You will also hit the SATA cap at around 450mb/s goodput.     (yes sata 3 = 650mb/s theoretical but that's throughput/max bandwith)

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I can confirm. Yes it gives you better benchmarks but no real world difference in load times etc... I only did it because I wanted to increase my size.

You will also hit the SATA cap at around 450mb/s

The SATA controller can handle more than that though. That is why you use 2 fast drives. I believe that the SATA controller on most motherboards can handle up to 2Gb/s

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The SATA controller can handle more than that though. That is why you use 2 fast drives. I believe that the SATA controller on most motherboards can handle up to 2Gb/s

 

As said above the maximum bandwidth of Sata 3 is 650MB/s once you hit that cap you wont go any faster unless you are using a raid controller with its own RAM as cache.

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Um... yes it is? Why wouldn't it? You'd be writing data to two different drives, having a seemingly 1Gb/s SSD.

 

 

I can confirm. Yes it gives you better benchmarks but no real world difference in load times etc... I only did it because I wanted to increase my size.

You will also hit the SATA cap at around 450mb/s goodput.     (yes sata 3 = 650mb/s theoretical but that's throughput)

 

I've been running RAID0 on my 128GB 830's for a couple of years now, and I can tell you right now other than getting almost 1Gbps in CrystalDiskMark, there is absolutely no benefit to having it striped.

If anything, it slows the boot process DOWN by having that bloody RAID splash screen in POST.

 

I will be happily upgrading to a single 500GB~ drive in the future!

 

Is that possible? For OS boot?

Yes it is possible, no it's not worth it. Aside from the lack of real-world performance, you're going to be twice as likely to lose your data, unless you have very regular backups running (I have mine set every Wednesday).

 

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I've been running RAID0 on my 128GB 830's for a couple of years now, and I can tell you right now other than getting almost 1Gbps in CrystalDiskMark, there is absolutely no benefit to having it striped.

 

Yes me as well im pulling 980MB/s in a benchmark but I was stating real world. aka copying/reading

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Um... yes it is? Why wouldn't it? You'd be writing data to two different drives, having a seemingly 1Gb/s SSD.

 

 

I can confirm. Yes it gives you better benchmarks but no real world difference in load times etc... I only did it because I wanted to increase my size.

You will also hit the SATA cap at around 450mb/s goodput.     (yes sata 3 = 650mb/s theoretical but that's throughput/max bandwith)

This is why i recommend getting one SSD instead or RAID 0 these days , the days of 250MB/s read/write speed SSD's are gone , those really benefitted from the RAID in real world scenarios benchmarks mean absolutely nothing to me other than bragging rights. It's like a car with 1000 horsepower and the other has 500 but the car with 500 is more fuel economic and is more rilaiable and they are both even fast in the real world . ( this is not true what cars go but whatever it's the best explaination i can give you.)

So you save money and also reducing the points of failure in your system so less chance something breaks.

Also when a drive dies ( unlikely with SSD's but oh well ) you lose all the data.

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SSDs are so fast now, until the new sata revision comes out, no point in raiding them.

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2 840 Pro's in raid 0 sounds awesome. Go for it. You should hit 1000 MB/s no problem.

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Because... it's faster.

 

What would be faster? Have 1 person shooting one person, or two people shooting 1 person? I hope that analogy makes sense :P

Dat analogy. xD 

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