Benefit of large SSDs, for people that don't need lots of space?

[hhhd1]

Main reason for RAID0 on SSDs is to have multiple SSDs appear as a single volume to setup the OS on,

Sometimes, 2x256gb were cheaper than 1x512gb.

 

[Wall Street]

Main reason for RAID0 on SSDs is to have multiple SSDs appear as a single volume to setup the OS on,

Sometimes, 2x256gb were cheaper than 1x512gb.

I just checked the Samsung 840 Evo, 850 Evo, 850 Pro, Crucial MX100, M550, SanDisk Ultra II and Extreme Pro drives on Amazon. In each of these seven cases, a ~512 SSD was cheaper than two ~256 GB SSDs of the same model. I will have to call BS on that one.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Picked up a Sammy 840 500GB a couple of years ago for $260 and haven't looked back since.
All I really need is a 384GB SSD, but those don't exist.

 

[Carson Dyle]

For fast local storage. How much you need depends on the size and number of files you work with.

Although I have 35+TB of networked storage on a file server, I need a fair amount of local storage on my desktop for working with very large files. Simply because it's much faster to work with local files rather than files across the network. So in addition to my OS/app/data SSD, I have a 7200RPM HDD in my desktop. One of these days I'll either replace the system SSD with a larger one or else I'll add a second SSD to replace the HDD.

There are also people who appreciate the totally silent nature of SSD. So if they had a 1TB HDD in their desktop, they may wish to replace it with a 1TB SSD.

 

[jackd1839]

SSD - Better than mechanical disks. As far as prices are concerned yeah i may go less but i always consider it value for money. Most importantly frequency of failure of SSD are less as compared to others.

 

[hhhd1]

I just checked the Samsung 840 Evo, 850 Evo, 850 Pro, Crucial MX100, M550, SanDisk Ultra II and Extreme Pro drives on Amazon. In each of these seven cases, a ~512 SSD was cheaper than two ~256 GB SSDs of the same model. I will have to call BS on that one.

Few weeks ago, a 240gb Crucial m500 was for less than $80 on amazon, while the 480gb is more than double that.

http://camelcamelcamel.com/Crucial-...240M500SSD1/product/B00BQ8RM1A?context=browse

http://camelcamelcamel.com/Crucial-...480M500SSD1/product/B00BQ8RHJ2?context=browse

This is just one example

 

[Blain]

Few weeks ago, a 240gb Crucial m500 was for less than $80 on amazon, while the 480gb is more than double that.

This is just one example

"Few weeks ago"...
You might as well started of "Once upon a time".

 

[Cogman]

Main reason for RAID0 on SSDs is to have multiple SSDs appear as a single volume to setup the OS on,

Sometimes, 2x256gb were cheaper than 1x512gb.

That seems like a bad reason to go with RAID0. Yes, you get "one drive" but then you also get half the reliability. SSDs do go bad, so having either drive corrupt is going to result in data loss which effectively doubles your data corruption rate.

Couple that with the flakiness of consumer grade RAID controllers and I just don't see the benefit. Just use the two drives separately. It really isn't that hard to make data go to one drive and apps to another.

 

[hhhd1]

Personally I do agree with you against RAID0 for SSDs, I am just stating that it might be useful/cheaper.

"Few weeks ago"...
You might as well started of "Once upon a time".

"Few weeks ago" is not the same as "Once upon a time", since in my case, I am implying that it happen often.

The link I posted also shows the minimum prices for each size, which could very likely reach that low again soon, like when there is stock clearance or price war when a new model from a competitor is released.

Minimum prices:
240gb= $73 , .. 2x240gb= $146
480gb= $180

There is few more examples:

Lowest prices for other than the m500:
Samsung 850 pro: $149.99 / $319.99
Samsung 830 (OLD): $154.99 / $439.99

 

[hhhd1]

Right now, Crucial m500:
240gb: $79.99
480gb: $207.00

on amazon.com

 

[Ketchup]

Right now, Crucial m500:
240gb: $79.99
480gb: $207.00

on amazon.com

Then get the MX100. It's a litter faster to boot!

As of this post:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...f_rd_i=desktop

$105 for the 256
$199 for the 512

 

[WildW]

Maybe someone was reading some very old articles extolling the benefits of RAID-0.

RAID 0 is "doing something" that feels like special nerd knowledge I guess. I blame Samsung and videos like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKcSxd_ynsM

 

[StrangerGuy]

RAID 0 is "doing something" that feels like special nerd knowledge I guess. I blame Samsung and videos like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKcSxd_ynsM

I don't find "special nerd knowledge" any impressive if the end result from that is umimpressive.

For example, overclocking. It's absolutely worthwhile to learn the tricks of trade if you can OC a chip by 50% or more like in the golden days of past for the price a decent aftermarket HSF, but when it comes to current generation Haswell CPUs I won't even bother to OC when the ROI is so bad it's pointless.

 

[Carfax83]

I'm one of those people that prefer to buy large SSDs, although I really don't need that much space. I do so mainly because I don't want to have to manage or even think about my SSD capacity..

I have a Samsung 850 Pro 1 TB right now that only has 162 GB of space used on it, and it's awesome. It's noticeably faster than the 840 Evo 1 TB that I had before..

Other benefits of using larger capacity SSDs is that over provisioning is unnecessary, assuming you're like me and will never use up the drive.