Does raid increase chances of my ssd failing

[itixmix]

Right, I am considering raid 0 for my OS only and lite programs such as browser, photoshop etc.
My games and photos, music, videos documents will be stored on a hdd.

My question is does putting 2 ssds in raid 0 increase their chance of failing?
lets say both of the ssds where "destined" to fail in 2 years under non raid operation, if i was to put them in raid 0 will they like fail before that time - i hope this makes sense?

Please answer my questions directly - dont change the subject.

I am aware that it doesnt protect me from losing data.

 

[USAFRet]

It probably won't increase the chance of fail, if you are just considering the wear potential.
But it will it increase any chance of fail, as far as losing the data in that RAID 0 array. And give you no performance benefit.

Why are you considering doing this?

 

[Dereck47]

Your odds of drive failure increase with multiple drives in a RAID array compared with a single drive.

If you have 3 cars in your household that are driven every day and I have 1 car that I drive every day, the odds are that one of your cars will be in the repair shop before mine.

Doesn't mean that it will; you can drive 100K miles on each of your cars without incident, and I can get into a accident after 9 miles with my car.

I've had 2 60GB SSDs in RAID-0 since 2009 and 2 1TB HDDs in RAID-0 since 2008 and neither array has failed as of today.

If you have SSDs that are 64GB or smaller then you will see a real-world difference if you put them in RAID-0 as opposed to using them individually.

Your signature shows that you have a 500GB Samsung EVO; if you buy another one to create a RAID-0 array then USAFRet is correct, you won't notice any real-world performance difference. The only thing you will get from spending the extra money is that you will have a C drive that is 1TB in capacity.

 

[itixmix]

Your odds of drive failure increase with multiple drives in a RAID array compared with a single drive.

If you have 3 cars in your household that are driven every day and I have 1 car that I drive every day, the odds are that one of your cars will be in the repair shop before mine.

Doesn't mean that it will; you can drive 100K miles on each of your cars without incident, and I can get into a accident after 9 miles with my car.

I've had 2 60GB SSDs in RAID-0 since 2009 and 2 1TB HDDs in RAID-0 since 2008 and neither array has failed as of today.

If you have SSDs that are 64GB or smaller then you will see a real-world difference if you put them in RAID-0 as opposed to using them individually.

Your signature shows that you have a 500GB Samsung EVO; if you buy another one to create a RAID-0 array then USAFRet is correct, you won't notice any real-world performance difference. The only thing you will get from spending the extra money is that you will have a C drive that is 1TB in capacity.

Thank you, thats the answer i was looking for. Another question is why wont i see any perfomance difference if i was to add another 500gb ssd and put it in a raid 0 array?

Thanks USAFRet!

 

[USAFRet]

SSD + RAID 0. Read this all the way through:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html