nvme RAID 0 on ASRock X370 Fatality Gaming X

[crazyllamaboyintights]

I have an ASRock X370 Fatality Gaming X with a Ryzen 5 1600x and a Samsung 960 EVO 250GB NVME SSD in the Ultra M.2 slot. I have been tight on space and wanted to expand with a second drive in RAID 0. I know the second M.2 slot is only PCIe 2.0 x2 but I have a PCIe x4 slot to x4 NVME adapter card I wanted to use (I don't need x16 for my RX480) My question is, do you know if ASRocks RAID will support this? If not I may return the second 250GB drive I ordered and just get a 500GB.

 

[USAFRet]

I have an ASRock X370 Fatality Gaming X with a Ryzen 5 1600x and a Samsung 960 EVO 250GB NVME SSD in the Ultra M.2 slot. I have been tight on space and wanted to expand with a second drive in RAID 0. I know the second M.2 slot is only PCIe 2.0 x2 but I have a PCIe x4 slot to x4 NVME adapter card I wanted to use (I don't need x16 for my RX480) My question is, do you know if ASRocks RAID will support this? If not I may return the second 250GB drive I ordered and just get a 500GB.

RAID 0 with NVMe drives:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-950-pro-256gb-raid-report,4449.html

Why not just have it as a second drive letter?

 

[crazyllamaboyintights]

I have an ASRock X370 Fatality Gaming X with a Ryzen 5 1600x and a Samsung 960 EVO 250GB NVME SSD in the Ultra M.2 slot. I have been tight on space and wanted to expand with a second drive in RAID 0. I know the second M.2 slot is only PCIe 2.0 x2 but I have a PCIe x4 slot to x4 NVME adapter card I wanted to use (I don't need x16 for my RX480) My question is, do you know if ASRocks RAID will support this? If not I may return the second 250GB drive I ordered and just get a 500GB.

RAID 0 with NVMe drives:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-950-pro-256gb-raid-report,4449.html

Why not just have it as a second drive letter?

I could do that, and I might, but I would rather have it just show up as a single drive, it makes installing games and software to it easier. I have a 1TB HDD for storage, but I would rather install my games/software to the SSD. Having a single drive makes that a bit simpler.

 

[USAFRet]

Over the last few years, software and the OS has gotten a LOT better with allowing use of multiple drives, pretty sealmessly.

Steam games can be absolutely defaulted to a second drive.
Steam games location
In the steam client:
Steam
Settings
Downloads
Steam Library Folders
Add library folder

You regular applications...install on the C drive.

Other things, default them to elsewhere:
Win 7 & 8: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1834397/ssd-redirecting-static-files.html
Win 8.1 & 10: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2024314/windows-redirecting-folders-drives.html

 

[crazyllamaboyintights]

Over the last few years, software and the OS has gotten a LOT better with allowing use of multiple drives, pretty sealmessly.

Steam games can be absolutely defaulted to a second drive.
Steam games location
In the steam client:
Steam
Settings
Downloads
Steam Library Folders
Add library folder

You regular applications...install on the C drive.

Other things, default them to elsewhere:
Win 7 & 8: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1834397/ssd-redirecting-static-files.html
Win 8.1 & 10: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2024314/windows-redirecting-folders-drives.html

Yes, I have done that before too, the program that gave me the most issue recently was Visual Studio, it gives you the option to install to a different drive...then installs about 5gb there and >30GB to the C drive. I may just do 2 separate drives (both still at PCIe 3.0x4, one in the Ultra m.2, one in the adapter card I had on hand anyway) But i just wanted to know if anyone knew of any issues with doing them in RAID 0, it would be simpler, and maybe even a bit faster.

 

[luckzeh]

You can also 'JBOD' the disks together under a single letter, getting all the fault tolerance issues of RAID0 with none of the performance advantages and none of the performance drawbacks.