2x480gb or a 960gb ssd?

Keechy · 16 Nov 2015 at 23:53

HI guys I am planning on get a upgrade on my storage and I don't know what to do I am planning on getting the Kingston HyperX savage ssd but I don't know should I get 2 480 in raid 0 or 1 960.

I am running an i7 3770k on a z77 sabertooth bored

Any ideas

kefan77 · 17 Nov 2015 at 00:05

Bigger single drive.

Why kingston though?

Keechy · 17 Nov 2015 at 00:20

I have all ways us Kingston I don't know why but i just like them

Redgie · 17 Nov 2015 at 07:37

Those two scenarios aren't really comparable. You said RAID 1, which I assume means you're looking for redundancy? Well, using RAID 1 gives you a single level of redundancy, whereas using a single drive gives you faster speed but no redundancy. Is the data being stored on the drive(s) important?

Keechy · 17 Nov 2015 at 11:33

Sorry i mean Raid 0. I need to stop posting when i am half asleep

Redgie · 17 Nov 2015 at 13:03

Ah, in that case, generally speaking the benefit from striping an SSD isn't really that noticable. You will however be twice as likely to lose all your data (as if either drive dies, everything dies).

I'd recommend the larger drive personally.

craig_t · 17 Nov 2015 at 13:44

+1 for the larger drive, RAID 0 in an SSD has very little effect too.

rtho782 · 17 Nov 2015 at 18:18

Yup, larger drive. I moved from 2x256gb drives to a 1tb drive, much happier.

smilertoo · 17 Nov 2015 at 23:13

Just avoid the new crucial drive, getting terrible reviews.

Keechy · 19 Nov 2015 at 12:04

yeh i was planing avoid the new crucial as my old 120 is very ****

Stu · 27 Nov 2015 at 11:03

Redgie said:
Ah, in that case, generally speaking the benefit from striping an SSD isn't really that noticable. You will however be twice as likely to lose all your data (as if either drive dies, everything dies).

I'd recommend the larger drive personally.

I wonder if the risk really is double... for RAID, when 1 drive dies you lose everything; and for one large drive, when 1 drive dies you lose everything.

I agree that the risk of having 2 drives is probably technically higher, but I wonder if it really is double.

Personally, I advocate the bigger drive so that you save room for another one later if needed.

bledd · 27 Nov 2015 at 11:10

It's more than double the risk. If the controller throws a wobbly in RAID-0, you lose everything.

RAID-0 isn't worth it with SSDs

If you want/need blistering fast speed, then get an M.2 drive, ~2500MB/s

rtho782 · 28 Nov 2015 at 23:08

Stu said:
I wonder if the risk really is double... for RAID, when 1 drive dies you lose everything; and for one large drive, when 1 drive dies you lose everything.

I agree that the risk of having 2 drives is probably technically higher, but I wonder if it really is double.

Personally, I advocate the bigger drive so that you save room for another one later if needed.

If you buy two lottery tickets, you have double the chance of winning.

If each drive has a 0.0001% chance of failing today, then with two of them you now have a 0.0002% chance of a drive failure today.

UKMach · 29 Nov 2015 at 16:30

+1 for larger drive. There really is no reason to raid two smaller ones with the prices and size of SSDs these days.

Jamdude · 30 Nov 2015 at 21:31

+1 for a larger single drive, the 1TB 850 EVO was £180 on Amazon earlier, absolute bargain!

Ayahuasca · 30 Nov 2015 at 22:25

960gb SanDisk is £150.