RAID 0 worth it?

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My Asus scar 16 laptop came with 2 1TB drives in RAID 0

All I do with it is game and watch movies/YouTube.

I'm tempted to swap the drives out for a single 2 TB as I could be done with 2 x 1tb for another project. And it would allow me more storage on the laptop down the road.

Would I notice any performance loss? I know RAID is faster but is there any point for my use case?
Thanks
Scott
 
For mechanical drives then yes as the alternate reads can help alleviate the performance loss from physically moving the read heads.

For SSDs I can't imagine the difference being noticeable outside of perfect lab conditions!
 
With consumer-grade hardware random 4k reads can often end up slower in RAID-0 and often represent the majority of Joe Average's use case. Sequential reads fly, though.
A single 2TB makes WAY more sense for your use case, spinning rust or no.
 
Drangueos said:
For SSDs, the short answer is no
For HDDs, it depends of your use, I had raid 0 before with HDDs.
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^Pretty much this

I used it years ago with mechanical drives with the caveat that it doubles the failure rate risk over using a single drive.

I've never used it with SSD's but I vaguely recall there being an issue at the time with it breaking TRIM so I'd want to double check if that was still an issue before using RAID with SSD's. The access time of SSD's over mechanical drives negates a lot of the benefits of using RAID 0.
 
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