Is it worth raiding SSD?

[Craig234]

I accidentally bought two 80 GB Intel Gen2's and was too lazy to return one.

I could riad them in one PC, or use each in two PC's.

Is it wirth raiding? You apparently get a ton of performance going from hard drive to SSD, is the almost 100% increase in a RADI worth doing? For a gaming system.

Or even splitting partitions, one for OS the other for games? If this, which would the swap go on?

 

[MalVeauX]

Heya,

You'll see no difference during your gaming at all with RAID0 with those two SSD's. The small file random read is already really fast on the SSD, and you just won't notice it when playing games. You won't notice it during anything really. The only time you'll notice it is during benchmarks. You will however notice the difference between SSD and HDD during general use (just loading thumbnails even in a folder full of images for example). But you won't notice the difference between SSD and SSD RAID0 unless you're just benchmarking.

I would use them in two separate systems. Let two computers enjoy a better operating environment. Gaming OS. And then maybe use one to make a HTPC or super duper Server.

Very best,

 

[Craig234]

Heya,

You'll see no difference during your gaming at all with RAID0 with those two SSD's. The small file random read is already really fast on the SSD, and you just won't notice it when playing games. You won't notice it during anything really. The only time you'll notice it is during benchmarks. You will however notice the difference between SSD and HDD during general use (just loading thumbnails even in a folder full of images for example). But you won't notice the difference between SSD and SSD RAID0 unless you're just benchmarking.

I would use them in two separate systems. Let two computers enjoy a better operating environment. Gaming OS. And then maybe use one to make a HTPC or super duper Server.

Very best,

Thanks. There's the fun factor of 'I have raided SSD', but if you can't tell the difference forget it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I think the only reason would be redundancy, and if both drives are exact same age they'll both fail at same time so even then it's pointless. Backup backup backup!

 

[Yuriman]

Good article to read: http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=976

Performance wise with RAID 0 we saw a performance boost over single SSD up to 250% in certain tasks; on average it will give you a 100% boost in all disk related tasks; so it’s certainly a recommended path if performance is your main goal.

 

[jnathan]

Fired with numerous of HDD failures. Lost Data those were valuable.
Any Reliable HDD? RAID? Which one?
I want Data Written on the Master be copied instantly to another HDD which would be independent when the Master drive failed.

 

[Emulex]

^^ what? I worry about corruption at the filesystem level (virus,o/s,haxor), tornado, theft,fire.

WHS and windows 2008 have DFS if you want to just run jbod and copy files instantly between two drives; that solves none of my worries though. it is not a bad way to go imo. jbod with rsync and rsync with dedupe to off-site

 

[grimpr]

If you're in SATA2, avoid at all costs, it will bring you nothing.

 

[Yuriman]

Article I linked says otherwise.

 

[mfenn]

If you're in SATA2, avoid at all costs, it will bring you nothing.

Wrong. SATA bandwidth is per channel.

Of course, if you go really crazy, you will bottleneck at the controller, but 2 drives aren't going to get you to that point.

 

[parim]

please consider Running them in Raid 0 (hardware) you will see cosideribely increased performance especially when you are writing files into the Drives. This is because INTEL limits its Write Speeds in the X-25-M series to about 100MB/s. The Raid-0 array will be much faster than that. There is no point in doing RAID-1 just get a bigger Magenetic Drive and use it as a backup drive.