2 SSDs- what to do? RAID? Separate games drives?

claypigeon101

claypigeon101

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Hi guys.

I've sold one system and have now got two Samsung EVO 250GB SSDs. Happy days!

My question is, what should I do with them?

My obvious options are, Windows and programs on one, games files on another, for maximum loading and read speed (yes?)

Or, RAID 0 (which I've never done) and have the OS and games files installed on the 'same' drive.

Would the first option be notably quicker? I guess it would be nice to have a 'big' OS SSD, thanks to RAID, but would I see performance increases at all if I kept them as two separate drives.

I also have a 1TB WD Blue for general storage- this was going to be my games drive until I acquired the second EVO. Now it can store photos and videos, other games files if I fill my SSD etc.

Any thoughts? I'm running Asus Z77 SATA III 6Gbps with i7 2600k.

Thanks! :) :)
 
I have 2 of the same drives and thought about raid.

in the end I kept one for the OS and programs and the other for games and setup files.

raid will improve read and write speeds of the drives but when doing this the magician software cannot see them as they appear as a intel raid drive (mine did) so you cannot run any firmware updates. the only thing you can do in the software is do a performance test.

my reason for not using raid was because I didn't notice any difference in the system when using them in non raid to raid.

mine has sata 3 but the controller is crap and cannot reach the full speeds, when in raid they got the speeds I would get using them in single drives but had to use sata 2 ports for raid as my sata 3 ports didn't have a raid option so that's why I got the normal speeds of 1 drive.

to be honest unless you are moving large files around all the time I would just leave them as single drives as then you don't loose everything if you do a OS install, I have all my steam games on the second SSD with OS and programs on the OS SSD
 
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