RAID vs SSD

Have gone with the Crucial MX550, two of.
Have seen many reviews online for SSD vs HDD in terms of reliability.
It appears as though all early gen SSD's carried mountains of issues but over the past 1-2 years they have drastically improved.
Some reviewers still hold the belief that SSD's are un-reliable or not as reliable as a normal HDD, and some are at the opposite end of the scale.
I've ran with a 480gb ssd for ages and not come across one single issue. I've had SSD's as my main C drive ever since the OCZ60gb drive was released and the only issue i've had is not enough space.
I'm going with raid for a few reasons, the speed increase - just because, the cost I'm getting these 2 drives for but mainly for a larger C drive rather than shell out on a single ssd.
Views and input appreciated :) i'll be having a regular backup overnight onto an external 2tb drive.
On the subject of risk - i'm still holding the belief that an SSD is more reliable than a HDD, and to me, having raid0 on 2 HDD's carries virtually the same risk as having 2 SSD's in raid0 :)
 
seems a lot of fuss (and cost) for steam/origin. id just put the extra drives in and install them there instead.

Or you could not have every game you own installed at once. no idea how much storage i would need if i installed all my games at once :eek:
 
say what? i dont appreciate such foul and negative language!! the mere thought of un-installing a game for the sake of saving space makes my shiver with dread.
I just couldn't bring myself to do it!!
I'm not so much concerned about the fuss side of things, yes its a bit of a ball ache to have to leave my pc on overnight to do a full backup, but I do it every now and then anyway to be safe.
As for cost? its not costing a great deal. the drives I picked up retail at around £170-£200 per drive, I'm getting them both for under £200 - far cry from the price of a decent 1tb drive :) so cost wise i'm still gaining :) so, in my eyes its worth it, and as I have come to understand with PC', Gaming & building your own - there is no real budget as there is always something else that comes along :D
 
He did not mention un-installing a game :p merely adding the drives to the system and adding future games to them.

Enjoy the drives tho'! :)
 
to be fair, i only play 2 or 3 of my games, but with a 1tb SSD C drive, i dont have to worry about having to install a game later to play it or worry about how many games i have installed and if there is enough space :D
Aleady have around 3tb of mech drives storing all media, docs etc so c drive is dedicated to gaming and the OS :D
 
The problem with your setup is that if you want to or need to reinstall your OS you will have to reinstall everything. OS should go on a separate drive so you can reinstall at will.
 
I've bought two SK Hynix 256gb SSDs when they were on offer for £70. Then set up a raid 0 array with my Sabretooth 990 fx board.

For some reason, running them in raid has tripled the speed according to HD tune!

One SSD:

Min: 314.6
Max: 334.2
Avg: 327.2
Access: 01.ms
Burst: 116.3
3.6% cpu usage.

Raid 0:

Min: 537.0
Max: 1017.4
Avg: 974.7
Access: 0.1ms
Burst rate: 2182.0
Cpu usage: 32.0%
 
Dont.
RAID.
SSDs.

It's a POINTLESS endeavour unless looking at benchmark data boils your egg. The major benefit of SSDs is Access Time, not sequential large file read/write speed.

I would argue that a single SSD boots Windows just as fast as RAIDed ones. Even if RAID SSDs are faster, you just lost all that time by having to initialise the RAID Option ROM.

HDD RAID makes sense when storage speed is desired. I personally have a 240GB OS/Games SSD and 4TB of HDD based RAID0 storage space. Games I play infrequently live on the HDDs and those I play frequently stay on the SSD.

The HDDs in RAID0 offer me around 300MB/Sec sequential throughput. It's excellent for capturing video and the like.

SSD's are cheap enough now that if you require large space then buy a 500GB or 1TB model. There is no real world usage benefit to raiding them.
 
Why not
Raid
The ssds?

If you have two Anyways, there's no downside to it if you're not daft and back up your data. More speed is always desirable.
 
You can answer your own question by reading what I already posted. But just to reiterate the point:

Pros
No tangible pros

Cons
Increased failure probability
Migration complexity
Rebuild complexity
Firmware upgrade complexity (Good luck updating firmware in RAID)

tl;dr - No upsides, ABSOLUTELY is downsides.
 
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