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Hello all.
I run a small project studio where do a lot of video and audio production work (recording bands with external audio interfaces, shooting higher bitrate video with pro camcorders and rendering footage in new edits, ect). I do a lot of this on the go where I meet clients and partners at random locations, so a solid laptop is key.
My current ASUS ROG Strix laptop is starting to show it's age after having it for 5 years (older CPU and a RTX 2070 GPU). The battery life is not what it was, and there are some ports starting to fail on it. So I decided to upgrade to a Lenovo Legion 9i that should be arriving this week. There was a pretty decent price drop on it, and I didn't really want to wait for the latest models to hit the shelves (especially with the possible pending terrif issues that maybe coming). So, I went ahead with model ere are the specs on it:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...o_83g0001kus_16_legion_9_laptop.html/overview
-Intel Core i9-14900HX (14th Gen)
-NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 with 16 GB GDDR6 VRAM
-32gb 5600 MT/s DDR5 SO-DIMM ram
-2x M.2 Slot 2280 (PCIe 4.0 x4)
It has 2TB of drive space, but the out-of-the-box configuration is two separate 1TB drives working in tandem in RAID 0. From the research I have done, it appears that the drives are Samsung Evo drives. Now, I am a Windows 11 system builder, so I know my way around upgrades, drive formatting/configurations ect, although I have never really used a RAID setup outside NAS units that use regular HDDs. I'm going to eventually want to upgrade these 2 SSDs to larger capacity drives, possibly NOT in a raid configuration, but for now, this 2tb raid o configuration will be okay.
I have been using the free app Easus2do to make Windows 11 backup images of my systems. This has allowed me to make SSD upgrades and changes on my other machines without having to deal with the headaches of reinstalling Windows and all my apps. It actually saved me on my desktop when I had a failing SSD that I had been using for several years. On that said desktop, I have actually swapped out my main boot SSD twice in the past year. Once for a drive failing, the other to upgrade to an 8tb drive. The Easus2Do backups worked flawlessly to get me back up and running in no time. I plan on doing the same backup option with this Lenovo Legion 9i. Once I get it all setup with the current RAID 0 configuration in tact, I'll get a back up made and keep it updated util I decide to swap out the current drives.
Are there any real benefits with running 2 PCIe gen 4 drives together in RAID 0? With the speeds they have by default on each drive, they are already pretty fast these days. Because of this. I usually avoid raid setups on my other machines and just go with a mid capacity (2tb usually) Gen 4 NVMe drive for the Windows install and all my apps, VST plugins, and sound libraries, then I will get a higher capacity 2nd drive (4tb to 8tb) to save all my project files to. I also have external M.2 enclosures that will make use of the 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports on this new Lenovo model. But should I consider keeping the RAID 0 setup down the road? I'm assuming the laptop's chipset or CPU would bring out a bottleneck somewhere that would not make RAID 0 work at it's full 100% potential. But again, I have never really ran RAID configurations with SSDs before.
I know that if a drive fails in RAID 0, I will lose everything (hence the Windows mirror backup plan). And I also do several back up options on the fly at all times of all my main projects as I am doing work on them. As I work in any session, I have drag and drops to other drives going on in the back ground as new files are made. Plus if I am working on my home network, I have a 32tb NAS unit I back up to as well.
With my backup habits I have in place to avoid total data loss, Is RAID 0 worth it from a performance stance? Or should I just consider 2 separate high speed NVMe drives down the road and keep them out of RAID config....?
Thanks in advance for any replies.
I run a small project studio where do a lot of video and audio production work (recording bands with external audio interfaces, shooting higher bitrate video with pro camcorders and rendering footage in new edits, ect). I do a lot of this on the go where I meet clients and partners at random locations, so a solid laptop is key.
My current ASUS ROG Strix laptop is starting to show it's age after having it for 5 years (older CPU and a RTX 2070 GPU). The battery life is not what it was, and there are some ports starting to fail on it. So I decided to upgrade to a Lenovo Legion 9i that should be arriving this week. There was a pretty decent price drop on it, and I didn't really want to wait for the latest models to hit the shelves (especially with the possible pending terrif issues that maybe coming). So, I went ahead with model ere are the specs on it:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...o_83g0001kus_16_legion_9_laptop.html/overview
-Intel Core i9-14900HX (14th Gen)
-NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 with 16 GB GDDR6 VRAM
-32gb 5600 MT/s DDR5 SO-DIMM ram
-2x M.2 Slot 2280 (PCIe 4.0 x4)
It has 2TB of drive space, but the out-of-the-box configuration is two separate 1TB drives working in tandem in RAID 0. From the research I have done, it appears that the drives are Samsung Evo drives. Now, I am a Windows 11 system builder, so I know my way around upgrades, drive formatting/configurations ect, although I have never really used a RAID setup outside NAS units that use regular HDDs. I'm going to eventually want to upgrade these 2 SSDs to larger capacity drives, possibly NOT in a raid configuration, but for now, this 2tb raid o configuration will be okay.
I have been using the free app Easus2do to make Windows 11 backup images of my systems. This has allowed me to make SSD upgrades and changes on my other machines without having to deal with the headaches of reinstalling Windows and all my apps. It actually saved me on my desktop when I had a failing SSD that I had been using for several years. On that said desktop, I have actually swapped out my main boot SSD twice in the past year. Once for a drive failing, the other to upgrade to an 8tb drive. The Easus2Do backups worked flawlessly to get me back up and running in no time. I plan on doing the same backup option with this Lenovo Legion 9i. Once I get it all setup with the current RAID 0 configuration in tact, I'll get a back up made and keep it updated util I decide to swap out the current drives.
Are there any real benefits with running 2 PCIe gen 4 drives together in RAID 0? With the speeds they have by default on each drive, they are already pretty fast these days. Because of this. I usually avoid raid setups on my other machines and just go with a mid capacity (2tb usually) Gen 4 NVMe drive for the Windows install and all my apps, VST plugins, and sound libraries, then I will get a higher capacity 2nd drive (4tb to 8tb) to save all my project files to. I also have external M.2 enclosures that will make use of the 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports on this new Lenovo model. But should I consider keeping the RAID 0 setup down the road? I'm assuming the laptop's chipset or CPU would bring out a bottleneck somewhere that would not make RAID 0 work at it's full 100% potential. But again, I have never really ran RAID configurations with SSDs before.
I know that if a drive fails in RAID 0, I will lose everything (hence the Windows mirror backup plan). And I also do several back up options on the fly at all times of all my main projects as I am doing work on them. As I work in any session, I have drag and drops to other drives going on in the back ground as new files are made. Plus if I am working on my home network, I have a 32tb NAS unit I back up to as well.
With my backup habits I have in place to avoid total data loss, Is RAID 0 worth it from a performance stance? Or should I just consider 2 separate high speed NVMe drives down the road and keep them out of RAID config....?
Thanks in advance for any replies.
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