Samsung EVO RAID?

[EricLane]

I have sAMSUNG eVO 840 120gb which stores my Windows 7 and modded Skyrim. I've used 111GB so far.

I just purchased a Samsung EVO 850 250GB. The biggest reason is that I did not want to get rid of my modded Skyrim and I want Fallout 4 on an SSD.

A few questions.

Did I make a mistake buying a different size and limiting a possible RAID0 (I don't really understand RAID yet)?

Should I keep this SSD and forget about RAID?

Is there any limitations I should expect running Fallout 4 on a second SSD?

Any additonal advice?

 

[glamdringfh]

Keep the SSD and forget about RAID.

1) You won't notice any limitations or slowdown by storing your games on a second SSD. You'll be able to play Fallout 4 from a second SSD no problem.

2) There have been NO real-world application environments that have shown that RAID 0 increases SSD performance. What it WILL do is significantly reduce the lifespan of the drives. Don't ever put SSD's in RAID 0.

 

[rgd1101]

forget about raid.
No limitations on a second ssd.

also if the drive is 120 and you are using 111, it slow down the ssd a lot, copy some of the stuff to the new one.

 

[kermdawg]

I have sAMSUNG eVO 840 120gb which stores my Windows 7 and modded Skyrim. I've used 111GB so far.

I just purchased a Samsung EVO 850 250GB. The biggest reason is that I did not want to get rid of my modded Skyrim and I want Fallout 4 on an SSD.

A few questions.

Did I make a mistake buying a different size and limiting a possible RAID0 (I don't really understand RAID yet)?

Should I keep this SSD and forget about RAID?

Is there any limitations I should expect running Fallout 4 on a second SSD?

Any additonal advice?

Different size he's is ok with raid 0 but it isn't ideal because you won't get equal throughout between drives. You'll still be able to combine the two into one drive however. Kicker is that to enable raid zero your going to have to format the ssds to create the array. Also personally I would be hesitant use a new ssd with a used one because the used one will inevitably fail before the new one because it has more writes on it. Bad thing about raid zero is that if one drive fails the whole array is lost. Basically with a used ssd your kinda setting yourself up for failure. But because you have to format the drives to do it you'd lose your modded skyrim so there's that to consider plus raid zero with ssds isn't going to give you a whole lot of real world performance increases if any. Basically you'll hit a point where the sata interface becomes the bottleneck and you have to go to a pci express ssd to beat that.

You can run nearly any game on a separate hard drive or even an external hard drive and you won't have any problems. My whole steam library is on a usb 3.0 external hdd and every game I have (over 200) runs fine on it.

 

[Y0GI]

Keep the SSD and forget about RAID.

1) You won't notice any limitations or slowdown by storing your games on a second SSD. You'll be able to play Fallout 4 from a second SSD no problem.

2) There have been NO real-world application environments that have shown that RAID 0 increases SSD performance. What it WILL do is significantly reduce the lifespan of the drives. Don't ever put SSD's in RAID 0.

I agree with glamdringfh, above. Additionally, the SSD sizes in a RAID 0 array will always match 2X the size of your smallest drive, so 2X120GB=240 GB max. You will lose 130 GB on the new 250 GB SSD as it will not be accessible.

Yogi

 

[EricLane]

Hey,

Thanks for the help.

Keep the SSD and forget about RAID.

1) You won't notice any limitations or slowdown by storing your games on a second SSD. You'll be able to play Fallout 4 from a second SSD no problem.

2) There have been NO real-world application environments that have shown that RAID 0 increases SSD performance. What it WILL do is significantly reduce the lifespan of the drives. Don't ever put SSD's in RAID 0.

 

[glamdringfh]

No problem!