2x 500GB SSDs Raid 0 Boot Drive

VSoSSe · November 23, 2018

So I've build my first PC earlier this year with a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB as my primary boot drive. I also recycled the 750GB HDD from my broken laptop for mass storage for games mainly.

As today is black friday Amazon offers the same SSD for 70€ (I paid double the price for the first one). So I'm getting this one and creating a Raid 0 boot drive with the 2. I've read some topics about it which mostly said its not worth the hassle, but they were mostly from 3 years ago.

I know it would be way more pratical just sticking the second one in and call it a day, but it's like overclocking a cpu it's still fun.

So just want to know how much pain in the ass it is to setup and maintain and if there is some difference in load times for windows or programs, games, etc.

LukeSavenije · November 23, 2018

I wouldn't turn it into a raid, I would personally use the first one as a boot drive and the other one as a scratch disk or game drive. then you have nothing to hassle with