Raid 0 SSD

[Gman]

Anyone doing this?  I realize many will think it's pointless, as SSDs are "fast enough already", but I've read varying reports that some have found that having a couple 250gb or even 2 500gb SSD drives in Raid 0 makes a fast drive even faster (with the obvious risks etc).

Question - is anyone here doing so or done so, and if so what is the 411 on it?  I'm considering doing this on my next system builds this year, that or the PCI-E m2 drives, but the Raid 0 option seems far better for bang/$, and also is faster in some ways, at least that's what I've been reading.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I wouldn't do it. Raid sometimes messes up trim for example. Your better option is to get a M.2 PCI-E NvMe card, they can do 1300mbs read on a single card (compared to the 1000ish on two raid 0 sata cards).

[Gman]

That was the initial plan, like I said, I was planning on putting m.2 into both new machines as the primary/boot drive, and put the most played games on it, and use a single large SSD for the rest, and one of the Black 7200 1 and 2 gig drives I have left over for other files and games I don't use as much.

I've just read at 1/2 dozen sites that Raid 0 SSD was a more cost effective and even faster option in some cases.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Even a single SATA6 SSD is so fast already that personally I don't bother even thinking to raid it. I've been burned a couple times with raid 0 so unless I really, REALLY need the speed I'm opting to skip it.

[katanaso]

I'm going to be doing it with my next build, with 4 SSDs and an Adaptec PCIe RAID card.  I've had the hardware for a while, but haven't assembled the system.

My main concern was the lack of TRIM, and only relying on the SSDs' Garbage Colleciton.  From what I've read, Windows can't use TRIM in RAID due to the way it sees the drives, as they're not presented as single AHCI drives.

I have two separate backup locations for my data, so the lack of redunancy isn't a big conern.  I'm also banking on the SSD reliability.

Once I get the machine built, I'll do some benchmarks, both synthetic, and through applications, and compare them to my current rig.  It won't be apples to apples, due to the CPU (i5-2500K OC'd vs i7-4970k OC'd), but I'm curious to see how it performs.

[Pudgie]

Anyone doing this?  I realize many will think it's pointless, as SSDs are "fast enough already", but I've read varying reports that some have found that having a couple 250gb or even 2 500gb SSD drives in Raid 0 makes a fast drive even faster (with the obvious risks etc).

Question - is anyone here doing so or done so, and if so what is the 411 on it?  I'm considering doing this on my next system builds this year, that or the PCI-E m2 drives, but the Raid 0 option seems far better for bang/$, and also is faster in some ways, at least that's what I've been reading.

I was figuring that you'd use the M.2 slots on the new X99 mobos & go w/ either the PCI-E M.2 SSD's or NVMe M.2 SSD's & you would try a SATA6 SSD RAID0 set up on the X79's so that you would have a somewhat side-by-side comparison of the 2..........

I know you'll sort it out either way you decide to go.