Raid 0 is it worth it?

jbh110tdi · 29 Oct 2015 at 08:54

so I picked up a 120gb ocz ssd last night from a mate Ive already got a 120gb Samsung ssd installed.

Is there much point in doing a raid 0 setup?
or do I just stick it in as a 2nd ssd for programs to be installed on?

james.miller · 29 Oct 2015 at 08:59

nope, not unless you need all the storage on one drive or you shift around massive files so much that the continuous transfer speed of two in raid0 is required.

jbh110tdi · 29 Oct 2015 at 09:13

Yea I wasn't sure if there was much point in it with 2 ssd's its not as if I would benefit in the performance.

I think if I was setting them up for the first time I might do it but only because I can..
But I cant justify formatting my system and needing to re install everything

Mrjobby · 29 Oct 2015 at 09:24

For a laugh I had my origin folder installed on 2 M4's in raid 0.

Was ace for getting in first every time on map changes

Wouldn't do it for anything that was important and I prob wouldn't mix drives either.

jbh110tdi · 29 Oct 2015 at 09:34

Mrjobby said:
For a laugh I had my origin folder installed on 2 M4's in raid 0.

Was ace for getting in first every time on map changes

Wouldn't do it for anything that was important and I prob wouldn't mix drives either.

yea I had wondered if the drives needed to be the same or not.

it was just a mad thought as I have it there it was free

Ive been planning on buying a 256Gb Samsung ssd to use as my system drive just not got that far yet.

think ill install it as a slave and put my steam library and my game installs onto it

jbh110tdi · 29 Oct 2015 at 09:39

plus reading up I dont think the ocz drives get a good name.. its the arc 100 if that makes a difference.

bledd · 29 Oct 2015 at 13:54

Only worth it with normal hard drives, which you shouldn't be buying nowadays if you want speed.