RAID-0 with 2 SSDs=Twice the pwerformance?

[meowmix44]

Im deciding on getting either 2 Vertex4 SSDs in RAID-0 or VECTORS in RAID-0.
Once I decide, does RAID double my read and write speed from 550MB/s to almost 1000MB/s?

 

[USAFRet]

I doubt you;ll see any performance increase in actual use.

I'm willing to be proven wrong, though.

 

[DarkSable]

Not even close.

First of all, SSDs get faster as you get a larger drive. Combine this with the fact that using RAID 0 means you have double the chance of losing everything, and it's already looking like a bad idea.

Second, The whole point of RAID is to increase random seek times. This is the point where a SSD is best ANYWAYS, so there's not much point there.

Thirdly, these drives would be on a 6Gb/s controller. That means you'd only be going from 550MB/s to 600MB/s. Not much of an increase there - certainly nothing you'd notice.

 

[meowmix44]

Not even close.

First of all, SSDs get faster as you get a larger drive. Combine this with the fact that using RAID 0 means you have double the chance of losing everything, and it's already looking like a bad idea.

Second, The whole point of RAID is to increase random seek times. This is the point where a SSD is best ANYWAYS, so there's not much point there.

Thirdly, these drives would be on a 6Gb/s controller. That means you'd only be going from 550MB/s to 600MB/s. Not much of an increase there - certainly nothing you'd notice.

Hmm, so I wont notice ANY differences🙁
What about boot time differences with 2 Vertex 4s in RAID?

 

[PsyKhiqZero]

It depends on what kind of performance boost your looking for. I doubt you will see any performance gains unless your working with large databases or lots of media files for editing work.

 

[DarkSable]

The boot time difference is the same thing as a continuous read - you'd be running at the same 600MB/s.

Why do you even care? It would be a second off of a boot that's already only a few seconds; just get a single, larger drive, giving you twice the reliability and the same speed.

 

[meowmix44]

I think I should just go get the 256 OCZ vector and not do raid but the Vertex 4 is trying to suck me in the hole🙁
I just want a super super fast startup time and loading large files. So RAID is an no no for SSDs?
Im in need of performance as my HDD is a major bottleneck in certain high end games and editing. Since I shouldnt do RAID, is there any other way to speedup 2 SSDs without raid. if not I just buy 256GB Vertex/Vector

 

[USAFRet]

I think I should just go get the 256 OCZ vector and not do raid but the Vertex 4 is trying to suck me in the hole🙁
I just want a super super fast startup time and loading large files. So RAID is an no no for SSDs?
Im in need of performance as my HDD is a major bottleneck in certain high end games and editing. Since I shouldnt do RAID, is there any other way to speedup 2 SSDs without raid. if not I just buy 256GB Vertex/Vector

It's not that it is a 'no no', just that it gives no improvement, with an increased possibility of failure.

As far as speeding things up, make sure the rest of the system is up to snuff. Before, the HDD was the slow guy. With an SSD, something else will be the slow guy.

 

[meowmix44]

I think I should just go get the 256 OCZ vector and not do raid but the Vertex 4 is trying to suck me in the hole🙁
I just want a super super fast startup time and loading large files. So RAID is an no no for SSDs?
Im in need of performance as my HDD is a major bottleneck in certain high end games and editing. Since I shouldnt do RAID, is there any other way to speedup 2 SSDs without raid. if not I just buy 256GB Vertex/Vector

It's not that it is a 'no no', just that it gives no improvement, with an increased possibility of failure.

As far as speeding things up, make sure the rest of the system is up to snuff. Before, the HDD was the slow guy. With an SSD, something else will be the slow guy.

my specs are
2600K@4.4GHz
Gigabyte Windforce 3X GTX 670 OC
AsRock Z77 Extreme 4
and a slow WD Caviar Blue 500GB drive for OS

Im pretty sure a new boot drive will do the trick MY old piece of shhhh HDD only gets 60MB/s after 1 year of use. Im in need of a speed demon and another GTX 670

 

[ikilleddave]

for someone who uses Raid 0 ssd's i can say i have tested my drives (sandisk extream) and i have had read speeds of 1.1gb/s and up to 1gb/s write, will you notice it? boot times?yes, game performance (loading) yes, general use for copying files and using antivirus or ccleaner it is pretty fast, is it necessary? no i think if you can get a decent ssd then that should do, or you could buy 2 smaller ssd's like i did (120gb) and raid them then use a fast hdd as a secondary for games, i use a wd caviar black for my steam and other stuff. hope i helped.

 

[popatim]

I have 4 raid 0's in my editing rig. 3 of them are bootable.
The SSd raid0 of samsung 830/256GB score 900MB/s.

Boots up fast? - yes but the raid initialization makes the whole startup from powered off take longer than a no raid ssd boot..

Transfers large files fast? - well that depends on what you are transferring to. SSD will not allow you to exceed the speed of the slowest device in the chain. Over my network I'm limited by gigabit. Internal to my other raids I'm limited by the HDD's of the other raids. Over the internet I'm limited by my upload speed.


Loads games fast? - Depends on the game, Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I'm sure someone has linked Toms raid0 testing by now but I dont recall seeing it so here it is: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ssd-raid-benchmark,review-32689-13.html

 

[ikilleddave]

True I used the file copying as more of a visualisation in reply to this thread as a whole I would say raid 0 is something to look into but a single ssd is more than capable, in terms of boot times yes you would have to wait for the raid screen but windows benefits greatly but
More so windows 8.

 

[popatim]

Why do you believe win8 benefits from raid more than, say, win7?

Win8 has better SSD support but that doesnt mean better raid support too.