SSDs in RAID-0 still relevant?

Yaayuh! · 12 Dec 2018 at 09:13

Just about to purchase 2x 1TB Samsung Evos for less than 1x 2TB Samsung Evo.

I haven't used RAID-0 for years. Is it still relevant, specifically for SSDs?

Alternatively I could look at getting the 2TB Seagate or Crucial, but I would prefer to stick to Samsung.

Steveocee · 12 Dec 2018 at 10:00

Not relevant.

A single SSD is stupid fast, NVME drives which are 4 times faster are not a noticeable upgrade from an SSD. All RAID0 will add is capacity and an extra failure point.

Would make more sense to JBOD them and have 1 for OS and 1 for storage/games/anything else.

Yaayuh! · 12 Dec 2018 at 10:22

I disagree NVME vs SATA SSD argument, but that's irrelevant to my question.

Extra point of failure isn't really much of an issue, I have a NVME drive for OS, this would only be for games so would be a mild inconvenience if it failed.

I suppose what i'm really asking is: 2x Decent SSDs in RAID-0 vs 1x Cheaper 2TB SSD with questionable controller.

Mujja · 12 Dec 2018 at 10:26

You'll see an improvement in sequential read and write times. If that's how games read data then yes 2 SSDs in RAID-0 will be better than a single SSD.

Yaayuh! · 12 Dec 2018 at 10:57

IGNORE ME.

Just realised OCUK have the 2TB Evo on deal :rolleyes: