Need some advice on a RAID setup

[Cloudy_Falls]

Hello tech experts!

I'm hoping to pick your brains on a good storage solution for my setup. As of today I have 2 SSD's (120gb Crucial & 250gb Samsung 850 Evo) & 2 HDD's (1tb WD Black & 1tb WD Blue).

The Samsung 850 Evo and WD 1tb Black arrived today and I am quite confused about how I can configure these into my setup. My plan was to uninstall windows 10 from the old Crucial SSD and re-install it to the Samsung SSD and then use the WD black for most of my games with the Crucial SSD for games I play quite often.

I plan to clean install Windows 10 as I have been encountering problems due to the migration from windows 8.1.

This is my first build and I've not played around with RAID before. I've read that RAID 0 will help boost performance but this can only be done with 2 HDD's. Is RAID a good option for me? Or perhaps I can set up an SSD as a cache drive for the WD Black and keep the blue as a backup drive?

What would you guys suggest?

This is the final step of my build and any help, opinions and suggestions are all very welcome!

You guys are awesome!

 

[kanewolf]

RAID is not a good option for home users because the complexity makes it too prone to problems. Using the Blue as a backup drive with the Black and second SSD for data is a good implementation.

 

[rujoesmith]

I would install the os and your most used programs on the 250gb ssd. I would also install programs/games on the second ssd. For storage/backup I would not recommend putting the hdd's into raid 0. Yes it would increase performance, but it also doubles your chance of data loss. Plus, if you plan on using the hdd's for bulk storage (videos, music, documents) you will hardly notice the speed bump anyway.

 

[Captain Mediocrity]

I think WD blue and black have different cache sizes. Not sure if that matters, but I agree. I wouldn't bother with the RAID in your situation.