4 Sata SSD in Raid0 vs M.2 SSD?

[ranij93]

Hello everyone!

What would you guys do? I would like to get more space.. at the moment i'm using two samsung evo 840 250GB ssds runningin raid 0, which perform really good. But i need more space..

Two more 250gb sata3 and raid them 4x250gb raid0

Or

I do have a free m.2 slot on the asus rog v extreme motherboard. Buy m.2 but get half the gb's for the price, but speed? Id like to see benchmarks with 4x 850evos in raid before i buy.

 

[robinwing14]

which m.2 ssd?

 

[robinwing14]

The nice thing about an m.2 like the 950 pro would be that there would be a much lower likelihood of it failing as opposed to 4 ssds in raid 0

 

[KLawinger]

4 drives in Raid 0 is very dangerous to be using as a daily driver, an m.2 should give similar performance without the risk

 

[ranij93]

Yes, i was thinking about the 950 PRO NVMe version.

It's alwasys exciting to try a bigger raid0 and see how much faster i can go. But i had 4hdds in raid0 some years ago, and it failed.. so i'm not really sure.

And the Sata drives are much cheaper per GB. hmmm

 

[robinwing14]

Stick with the 950 pro, that way you can have stability and 2000+ read and writes

 

[JohnnyLucky]

What would I do? I don't bother with RAID arrays.

From a historical perspective RAID arrays were developed to improve hard disk drive performance. With modern ssd's, especially the new M.2 and PCIe versions, RAID arrays are no longer as popular as they once were. Interest in RAID arrays has steadily declined over the past 8 years. You can see it in the forum posts.

 

[ranij93]

Alright M.2 it is. Thanks for the quick answers.

Already excited to see the 2000mbs!

 

[JaredDM]

You're making the right choice going with the M.2. Unless you have an awesome RAID controller, you probably weren't getting much speed advantage from having SSDs in a RAID anyway.

 

[Artkil]

Are M2 used as boot drive in PC common these days? My concern was the location I see on most new MB it's so close the the video cards.. Thoughts? I am about to build a new machine and keen to use M2 boot drive.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Since you are interested in ssd's I'd like to mention that I maintain an ssd database listed in a sticky at the very top of this forum section. Here is the link:

http://www.johnnylucky.org/data-storage/ssd-database.html

The database is divided into sections based on the interface. PCIe and M.2 ssd's are listed at the beginning of the database. Follow the links to the techniocal reviews for brands and models you might be interested in. The reviews are divided into two categories - English language and reviews in many other languages.