2xSSD's in Raid 0 and HDD's in Raid0

[Eric1987]

How would I go about this? I am trying to run all my drives in raid 0 separately. Like the SSD's set up in Raid0 and the HDD's set up in Raid0.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

You would create two separate stripes in your RAID controller. It's not particularly complicated - if you can do one, you can do two. You'll probably need to destroy everything though.

What RAID software/controller are you using?

I suppose some motherboard RAID might not support more than one virtual device (RAID group) but that would be kind of a shocker in this day and age.

 

[mrpiggy]

What are you hoping for? If you have to ask, then you haven't probably done it before and if you haven't done it before, your expectations are probably all out of whack with the results you will actually get. The SSD's in RAID0 will gain nothing but hassles and benchmark numbers, but no real-world performance difference. Now the spinner drives might gain some actual performance, but since you have SSD's, there is no real reason to use the spinners in any capacity beyond archival type storage as even in RAID0, they won't be as responsive as the SSD's.

 

[ArisVer]

You should setup the SSDs, install the OS, and then setup the HDDs. If your RAID controller cannot handle more than the first two SSDs, then use software RAID for the HDDs. I assume that the HDDs are going to be used for storage. I would also advice you on using the HDDs without RAID, as I see no gain by doing it.

 

[Denithor]

What are you hoping for? If you have to ask, then you haven't probably done it before and if you haven't done it before, your expectations are probably all out of whack with the results you will actually get. The SSD's in RAID0 will gain nothing but hassles and benchmark numbers, but no real-world performance difference. Now the spinner drives might gain some actual performance, but since you have SSD's, there is no real reason to use the spinners in any capacity beyond archival type storage as even in RAID0, they won't be as responsive as the SSD's.

+1

 

[alzan]

I don't get this need for putting SSD's or hell even HDD's into rAID 0, at least at the consumer level. In the case of SSD's you've got one of the fastest boot/storage medium options available and you want to set them up in an inherently risky RAID level?

I like trying and working with different technologies just as much as the next nerd but I don't apply them to my personal workstation "just because I can".

Why make things (potentially) more difficult? Is it like car geeks trying to squeeze a couple more horsepower out of their engine?