single large SSD or multiple small ones?

[mythrandyr]

hi guys,

I'm having a bit of difficulty making my mind up on this one so i'm turning to you guys for help, advice and a change of perspective.

which should i go for do you think as a boot drive? I'm currently using a single Samsung SSD since i'm waiting for one to be returned back to me (which i'm not sure they will) but when i get it back i'll be setting them up in Raid 0.

The question is, for my last drive what should i do?

Should i go for a 3rd Samsung Raid drive and then partition the drives into 2 partitions or should i go for a single 128-120GB hard disk drive? such as the G.Skill titan.

I know what price range that i am looking at (£115-£280 ish depending on which choice i take) and both options present their own advantages and disadvantages such as being able to raid 3 sammys but the trouble is that raid can be unstable/unreliable but a single drive will not perform aswell as raided drives but should give more reliability. I just can't descide.

 

[six-leaf]

hi guys,

I'm having a bit of difficulty making my mind up on this one so i'm turning to you guys for help, advice and a change of perspective.

which should i go for do you think as a boot drive? I'm currently using a single Samsung SSD since i'm waiting for one to be returned back to me (which i'm not sure they will) but when i get it back i'll be setting them up in Raid 0.

The question is, for my last drive what should i do?

Should i go for a 3rd Samsung Raid drive and then partition the drives into 2 partitions or should i go for a single 128-120GB hard disk drive? such as the G.Skill titan.

I know what price range that i am looking at (£115-£280 ish depending on which choice i take) and both options present their own advantages and disadvantages such as being able to raid 3 sammys but the trouble is that raid can be unstable/unreliable but a single drive will not perform aswell as raided drives but should give more reliability. I just can't descide.

Personally I'd Raid 3/4/5 3xSSDs (depending on your budget/what controller/intended uses). But I wouldnt partition them at all - last time i partitioned a RAID when I copied files from one to the other it absolutely hammered the array, parity disk wasn't having fun times.