Question Extended 2-3 NVME Disc in one big partition or use separately?

[Tony.Guamota]

Hello, i have 4 NVME M2 Samsung 980 discs in my PC.

One is primary 1.TB used for programs and Windows . Partition C:/.

My question is, is it bad to use other 3 Samsung NVME 980 2TB disc as ONE partition - Extended? They are all same, all 3 are 2TB with heatsink and merged in to one D:/ drive, but Samsung magician does not recognize them, i cannot test them, so is it bad for the discs to be as one drive? Should i use tnem separately as D:/, E:/ and F:/? is there speed difference or anything i should know about?

Thank you.

 

[USAFRet]

Hello, i have 4 NVME M2 Samsung 980 discs in my PC.

One is primary 1.TB used for programs and Windows . Partition C:/.

My question is, is it bad to use other 3 Samsung NVME 980 2TB disc as ONE partition - Extended? They are all same, all 3 are 2TB with heatsink and merged in to one D:/ drive, but Samsung magician does not recognize them, i cannot test them, so is it bad for the discs to be as one drive? Should i use tnem separately as D:/, E:/ and F:/? is there speed difference or anything i should know about?

Thank you.

You can't "Extend" into other physical drives.

Windows StorageSpaces or a RAID 0.
But both of those are a bad solution.

Have them individual drives and drive letters.

 

[Tony.Guamota]

You can't "Extend" into other physical drives.

Windows StorageSpaces or a RAID 0.
But both of those are a bad solution.

Have them individual drives and drive letters.

Hello, i installed first, set it as drive D, then installed second and third and used windows storage manager then extended D with other two drives. So should i split them in 3 separate drives? Could you please explain why is it bad solution? Thank you.

 

[USAFRet]

Hello, i installed first, set it as drive D, then installed second and third and used windows storage manager then extended D with other two drives. So should i split them in 3 separate drives? Could you please explain why is it bad solution? Thank you.

Right...StorageSpaces, in Windows.

It makes future maintenance much harder.
And potentially makes performance of the drives slower, because of the overhead.

I have 6x SSDs (2x NVMe and 4x SATA III) in my system, and would never want to merge any of them like that.

 

[Tony.Guamota]

Right...StorageSpaces, in Windows.

It makes future maintenance much harder.
And potentially makes performance of the drives slower, because of the overhead.

I have 6x SSDs (2x NVMe and 4x SATA III) in my system, and would never want to merge any of them like that.

What about Raid 0 setup, is it bad for performance of the discs? Or would it be better solution than windows storage spaces?

 

[USAFRet]

What about Raid 0 setup, is it bad for performance of the discs? Or would it be better solution than windows storage spaces?

RAID 0 is even worse than Storage Spaces.

This, from several years ago. I've not seen anything to refute this.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-950-pro-256gb-raid-report,4449.html