To RAID or not to RAID, that's the question...

[Voodoo]

Hey all,

I'll be receiving my 2nd SSD today and I was wondering if it's beneficial to put them in a RAID0 setup or not. I know it increases read/write speeds, but is this actually noticeable in loadtimes when playing games like SC?

Thanks in advance for the advise!

 

[Printimus]

I have two SSHD (hybrid drives) in RAID 0 and i fuckin love it. Everything is stupid fast. Go for it!

 

[Vavrik]

Generally speaking we use RAID 0 a lot to make large single volumes that span multiple drives, it comes in pretty handy when you're working with very large data sets - but there is a ... weakness... If a single drive fails in a Raid 0 configuration, it can take all of the data across all volumes in the array. We have daily differential backups as a result.

If it was mine, I'd install them as two separate volumes.

 

[Voodoo]

Generally speaking we use RAID 0 a lot to make large single volumes that span multiple drives, it comes in pretty handy when you're working with very large data sets - but there is a ... weakness... If a single drive fails in a Raid 0 configuration, it can take all of the data across all volumes in the array. We have daily differential backups as a result.

If it was mine, I'd install them as two separate volumes.

Yeah I know about the risk of data loss. But that is not my real concern since I have a NAS drive for all my personal files. And a separate HDD for my local stuff.

So the only reason for me not to do RAID 0, is when the speed improvement is unnoticeable.

 

[Vavrik]

You're going to be far more impressed with the performance of SSD than Raid 0 with SSD, but it sounds like you have your bases covered. That's not to say you won't be impressed:
If you put your OS on SSD, your boot time for say Windows 10 Professional (startup load) is incredible. My system went from 7 minute startup, to something like 30 seconds.