RAID 0 Question, NVMe with non NVMe SSDs?

[Berryracer]

So I bought a new MSI GT73VR Titan Pro laptop that will be shipped soon....

It has

2x 2TB Samsung 960 PRO m.2 NVMe PCIe SSDs
1x 1TB Samsung 850 EVO m.2 SSD (not NVMe)
1x 4TB Samsung 850 EVO SSD

the way I setup the laptop initially by logging to it remotely before they ship it is:

2x 2TB 960 PRO (RAID 0)

C: = 200 GB (OS)
D: = 3TB (Games)
OP = 20% approximately


then

1TB m.2 850 EVO + 4TB 850 EVO = Spanned Drive 5TB (Trim works, confirmed that using trimcheck.exe)



Now on a second thought, what do you think if I create a single RAID 0 Array out of the all the SSDs fora total of 9TB, then just setup C: = OS Partition 200GB and D: the remaining space of 8.5TB

or would that severely affect performance?

Although I do care about performance, I also like the convenience of having a single large partition for all my data and huge videos collection, or would you keep the first setup I mentioned above?

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I honestly wouldn't raid any of it. The whole point of raid0 was increased throughput, not making two disks one bigger disk. You're hedging yourself toward a disk failure causing a lot of data loss.

Split them, pick an nvme for your C:\, use the rest for misc, but keep them seperate.

 

[Berryracer]

I honestly wouldn't raid any of it. The whole point of raid0 was increased throughput, not making two disks one bigger disk. You're hedging yourself toward a disk failure causing a lot of data loss.

Split them, pick an nvme for your C:\, use the rest for misc, but keep them seperate.

I am not concerned about failure as I do daily backups and never had an SSD or RAID array fail on me

Other than that, from a performance standpoint, any other reason why you wouldn't RAID? I know the 4K Random reads don't improve in RAID, they're actually about 5% slower, but everything else to increase in synthetic benchmarks

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I am not concerned about failure as I do daily backups and never had an SSD or RAID array fail on me

Other than that, from a performance standpoint, any other reason why you wouldn't RAID? I know the 4K Random reads don't improve in RAID, they're actually about 5% slower, but everything else to increase in synthetic benchmarks

Because eventually that raid will fail, and the difference will not be noticeable in normal usage. That's why I wouldn't do it.