Installing raid 0 using evo ssds

Mightyashy · 13 Nov 2013 at 00:36

Are there any guides about to doing as thread title? Board is a gigabyte z87x-oc

No idea what to set up in the bios etc so any advice would be great!

Probably installing from a USB stick if possible, win 7/8 (not decided)

Many thanks

wazza300 · 13 Nov 2013 at 00:41

not too hot on raid,but you would need to set the sata ports to raid mode in the bios

then at bootup press ctrl and I to access the raid console and setup a raid 0 array on the two evos ssd's once done save/exit and then boot from usb and install windows

if done correctly the two ssd's will appear as one big drive when installing windows

Mightyashy · 13 Nov 2013 at 14:45

thanks mate, is there anything specific I would need to do in the bios to make sure its all set up ok? am I right in thinking you need to set it to ACHI or something? been a while since I installed windows so not sure if anything has changed

wazza300 · 13 Nov 2013 at 16:26

ahci is different,raid is what you want

and to setup the array you press ctrl and I to access the console at startup

Mightyashy · 13 Nov 2013 at 18:35

wazza300 said:
ahci is different,raid is what you want

and to setup the array you press ctrl and I to access the console at startup

nice one thanks again

Mightyashy · 13 Nov 2013 at 18:42

Looking at a few sites there appears to be differing opinions on whether its actually worth doing, some saying you will see no real world difference others not.

What are peoples thoughts on this? is there any point me bothering or should I use one for windows and apps and the other for games?

wazza300 · 13 Nov 2013 at 19:02

its upto you,ive never bothered with raid tbh

I doubt you'd notice much difference vs a single drive

andy_mk3 · 13 Nov 2013 at 19:08

Absolutely no reason to RAID an SSD for speed, you wouldn't notice the speed increase apart from moving massive files about, maybe a second or two booting up.

Mightyashy · 13 Nov 2013 at 20:09

Right

I would probably be better off with the 500gb model then would you say? If so do you think OCUK would amend my order?

HazardO · 14 Nov 2013 at 11:17

andy_mk3 said:
Absolutely no reason to RAID an SSD for speed, you wouldn't notice the speed increase apart from moving massive files about, maybe a second or two booting up.

Depends on what you are trying to do

Capturing line rate 10Gbit ethernet to disk needs RAID! (Needs min 1.25GBps sustained write.)

The 250GB EVOs sustained write is only about 240MB/s wheras the 500GB one is more like 400MB/s look up Turbowrite. You may be better with one 500GB disk than two 250GB drives in RAID0

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7173/...w-120gb-250gb-500gb-750gb-1tb-models-tested/4

Mightyashy · 14 Nov 2013 at 14:23

HazardO said:
Depends on what you are trying to do Capturing line rate 10Gbit ethernet to disk needs RAID! (Needs min 1.25GBps sustained write.)

The 250GB EVOs sustained write is only about 240MB/s wheras the 500GB one is more like 400MB/s look up Turbowrite. You may be better with one 500GB disk than two 250GB drives in RAID0

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7173/...w-120gb-250gb-500gb-750gb-1tb-models-tested/4

Thanks mate

I've emailed and asked if I can amend my order.

Another question (probably stupid...) regarding partitioning storage drives. Is there any point? as if the drive dies it all goes anyway, if I have say a 3tb drive where only my files, no apps etc will be on it is there any reason to partition?