Adata sp550 RAID 0 vs Samsung 950 pro

[Abid_4]

Looking to upgrade my current SSD and was impressed by the performance of these newer PCI-ex SSD's-
They do come with a higher cose.

Say I were to take a relative bargain SSD- like the ADATA sp550 and do a RAID 0-
My main purpose would be installing the OS on it and online gaming.

Thoughts?

 

[ss202sl]

Don't do raid 0.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html

 

[pasow]

RAID 0 will not be useful for general OS stuff and it greatly increases the likelihood of data loss. (i may have a RAID 0 array of SSD's but i did it for capacity and cost at the time)

go with a single drive PCIe SSD. OS drives are more dependent on random 4k workloads than sequential, gaming wont see much past low load times, and RAID will/can slow certain workloads on SSD's.

 

[boosted1g]

Agreed, don't go with Raid 0. The risk factor skyrockets and the reward factor is very little.
Would also not use ADATA drives at all.

 

[Abid_4]

Thanks so much guys