kanewolf :
Viper-2733 :
@kanewolf, Another thing I wanted to ask is does raid0 contribute to drive degradation? And how much speed it contributes? if a raid0 array will make the drives die faster while only adding like.. 50% faster read and writes I'd rather just buy a single 7200rpm 2TB drive.. I'm never going back to 5400rpm
Does RAID0 cause drives to fail faster? I have never seen any articles like that. But RAID0 does double the probabilities of loosing all your data. Why, because a failure of either drive loses data on all drives. I don't recommend RAID0 or even RAID1 for most home users. The probability of data loss it too high for the limited benefits.
You seem to have conflicting priorities. Most performance vs most space. Maybe your data isn't that important, but a backup scheme needs to be your top priority IMO.
Yeah my priorities did get conflicted after your first response, I wanted to have a drive just for storage of videos and pictures and possibly game instalations, stuff that I don't really mind that would load slowly. I back up my documents on several places, whether on a cloud, external hdds, flash drives... movies and games I don't mind losing, so I don't back them up, and game saves weigh nothing, so flash drives are sufficient for that.
After your first response I started reading about RAID, and I also did not find anything that points to drive degradation, except of ssds, which are out of the question at the moment, and the reason I asked you here as well. Since you don't recommend RAID0, I'll take it that your answer is to get one 2TB drive? again, I do not plan to have data on one drive and back it up on the other, I plan to use both for their full capacity, but it would be nice if I could push just a bit more speed out of them in raid0. I've read
this, but my millage will vary on my system.