Possible incompatibility

Lekner · 4 May 2015 at 16:16

Okay, so currently I own an 840 256gb pro but I'm planning on ordering a 850 pro 256gb and may raid in the future.
Will this cause any obvious issues in the future, besides the fact that the 840 may die earlier?

bledd · 4 May 2015 at 16:26

The general consensus is.. don't raid SSDs. Unless they're part of a server storage pool or something like that.

If you're after pure speed, look at SSD cards https://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=1657&catid=2101&subid=2199

or M.2 SSDs

thebennyboy · 4 May 2015 at 16:33

SSD's aren't really made to be put in RAID configs.

wazza300 · 4 May 2015 at 20:14

they will work in raid fine,no incompatibility

upto you really

Lekner · 5 May 2015 at 10:22

fair enough, thanks for the advice here, may just hold on till I can grab a slightly bigger ssd then if raid won't provide a big enough speed improvement.

On Holiday · 5 May 2015 at 12:03

Pointless RAIDing SSDs outside of an enterprise solution imo, unless you have money to waste

ED209 · 5 May 2015 at 12:07

I had 2 x SSDs in raid and for gaming and general use I couldn't tell any difference so went back to single drives.

the Samsung software also does not work as it cannot see the drives so you cannot do any firmware updates etc.

I kept them both as single drives and used one for games and the other for for OS and apps.

this was on sata 2 as well so I got the full speeds of single drive use in raid. single drives I was getting 280mb read and write

Lekner · 5 May 2015 at 13:05

Archeum said:
Pointless RAIDing SSDs outside of an enterprise solution imo, unless you have money to waste

If only I did.

bit of a shame really as I previously mentioned may grab a larger drive then, was taking a look at the bx100, I can grab the 512gb version for around 140. which is about the same price it cost me for a my first ssd (120gb) and cheaper than my than my current 840 pro when I bought that a few years ago. amazing how much the price per gb has dropped really.