Using dual SSD drives for W7

[jpod]

Howdy

Doing a fresh install of my W7

Currently have a very full WD 1TB caviar black.

If I use two SSD cards for my OS and a couple of services (MS office, a game or two)

In raid 1 (I think that is a mirror)

Does that make it fast?
Is it fairly easy to do (guess I use Intel prog to do that)
Plus if one goes kaput how do I know?

Thinking of using this and retiring my 2500k rig:
Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£14 Saving**

I was lucky enough to grab a discount Gigabyte 7990 thanks to Stulid's recommendation months ago.

Next up is either higher definition gaming byt read they are 30Hz, think I would prefer 140Hz screens - any tips?

Thanks for your help

My budget is reasonable bang for your buck levels - hot rod rather than god box

 

[Badfish]

Raid 1 is slower than a single disk as its mirrored, so it has to write the data twice. If you want high performance, use raid 0. Raid 1 is good for redundancy, if one breaks its no problem. Raid 0 is for performance, but if 1 breaks you lose everything.

 

[DaleTheWhale]

The difference between a SSD and 2 in raid isn't worth the cost, W8 takes me 6 seconds to boot and into Chrome. Get a single large SSD instead of 2 smaller ones.

 

[Biomorphs]

Last time I looked (granted it was about a year or so ago) when you used SSD's in RAID, a feature called TRIM was not supported, which meant that over time your SSD RAID would slow down. TRIM is supported when not in RAID though.

I currently have the same kind of SSD/HDD setup, with 2 x 120GB SSD and 1 x 1Tb HDD and simply use one of my drives to loads windows on, and the 2nd SSD to install my games on, and my 1 Tb to store my music/pics/porn/oldgames on

To save yourself hassle, just buy 1 x big SSD, and forget about RAID on your SSD's you will love the speed that SSD's give you, and less hassle of RAID will be for the best

 

[jpod]

Awesome thanks fellas, appreciated