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In 99.9% of use cases, you will see zero real-world benefit, and have the added point of failure.
For a consumer system? No need.
been saving that first post for a while eh?!I have 3 enterprise Intel 480GB SSDs running in a RAID 0 on a hardware RAID card in my gaming machine. My games load at the same speed they did when I had the same SSDs configured for JBOD. The upside is now I have a single large partition and I don't have to worry about which disk to install on.
This setup was put together with spare parts I had laying around so it didn't cost me anything. If the RAID goes tit up then I'll only need to reinstall Windows and my games (game saves are backed up through Steam).
For buying new equipment, I'd just go with the largest SSD you can afford.
The above.
Also consider your cpu use while doing fast transfers will rocket unless you use a decent hardware raid controller.
Thanks, its a whole lot better than expected."rocket" is a bit hyperbolic. Just as a test, I started copying a big file (80 GB) from my NVMe SSD to my RAID0 of SATA SSDs. Here is what my CPU graph looked like at the time. The red line represents when I cancelled the transfer. The copy was non-negligible in terms of CPU use, but calling it a "rocket" is way overestimating the impact.
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Thanks, its a whole lot better than expected.
Living in the past doesnt help.
What hardware is that with?
My CPU is an AMD 3700x, and the RAID is literally a software RAID 0 in Windows. Zero hardware involved.What hardware is that with?
Thanks, I am interested which motherboard to determine the RAID interface.My CPU is an AMD 3700x, and the RAID is literally a software RAID 0 in Windows. Zero hardware involved.
I have an ASRock B450 Pro4, but I'm not using the onboard RAID. Windows can be configured to handle RAID completely in software, regardless of motherboard or drive controller. It's 100% truly software RAID.Thanks, I am interested which motherboard to determine the RAID interface.
I see, good to know, thanks.I have an ASRock B450 Pro4, but I'm not using the onboard RAID. Windows can be configured to handle RAID completely in software, regardless of motherboard or drive controller. It's 100% truly software RAID.
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My CPU is an AMD 3700x, and the RAID is literally a software RAID 0 in Windows. Zero hardware involved.
LOL. 8-core, 16-thread. But I take your point. That said, that's why I showed the individual logical cores - none of them in particular are loaded down during the transfer. I had the same setup on my 6700k and it was also just fine The 'math' for RAID 0 (and RAID 1) is super simple; if I was doing RAID 5 or 6 in software then you might expect some CPU-based performance limitations or system impact.That's because your 16 core behemoth cpu laughs at the rest of us peasants.
if I was doing RAID 5 or 6 in software then you might expect some CPU-based performance limitations or system impact.
Googlefu is an acquired skill.I have never had the excess income to use a raid setup what is it for exactly?
Fair enoughGooglefu is an acquired skill.
I had 3 250gb drives I pulled from computers being tossed at work and did this. 1 drive letter, games so nothing important, windows configured in a few clicks. Works awesome.Hate to bump an old thread. I just bought two WD BLUE 1TB ssd drives from best buy. They were 99$ each. For shits and giggles I did a raid 0 volume and it works pretty well. I don't care about the data on the ssds. It's just for games. And I like having a single volume instead of two drive letters. So for me, it was fun. I learned how to do it and it's convenient. I know you guys talk about a single point of failure but I have faith my drives won't die. I have never in my life had a drive die on me. One 8GB maxtor drive way back in 99 but thats it. So the data on here is just games. I won't lose anything. It literally took 5 seconds to create the raid. Was easy as pie.
Anyways, it's pretty cool to see one drive letter knowing 2 drives are making up that space. The ssd benchmarks show increased speed. Sequential is 1029.88 MB/s for reads and 870.98 MB/s for writes all on SATA3. My WD Black NVME SN750 performs better. Not too bad and it was fun geeking out. Thanks for the help!
Precisely.Now days no, unless you like to run benchmarks all day.