Should I raid my M.2 SSD drives?

[adgelhar]

Hello: I am an advanced technology person bordering on being a dangerous:

My Asus MB went south and I am building my second computer.

The new config will be:
Asus MB Strix Z370-E
Intel i7 - 8700K processor
GEFORCE GTX 1080 Ti graphics
Corsair HX850 PS
Corsair H100i V2 cooler
Corsair carbide 400C case
2 WD 4tb ea, raided 0, cloud drives - on network
For now - 2 Asus EXT Bw-16D1X blu-ray drives
1 x G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB

The MB comes with 2 M.2 SSD Mvne sockets:
2 x SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 1TB NVMe PCI-Express 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drives - one for each socket

Now the question which I believe many others have:

(I have raided my cloud drives - raid 0)

Should I raid the 2 M.2 1TB drives to raid 0. I have heard both yes and no. The W10 OS will be on one of them.

Would it be worth the effort to raid them?

You guys/gals are the best!!

 

[zyh1987]

i don't think it's worth the effort of raiding two nvme ssd.

not sure what is your purpose, if you are using it mainly for productivity work, you can skip my first point. if you are a gamer, even the difference between nvme drive and sata6 based drive are quite minimal. let alone raiding the nvme drives. nvme is already extremely fast, and from my own experience, i only noticed some what of a difference in wow and gta5, where loading time are reduced by 10% using nvme drive vs sata based ssd.

from the data security point of view, with raid 0, you have double the failure rate, and also data are much more difficult to recover. which require constant back up, for a minor performance gain. if you are performance oriented, i think you should consider either raid 10 or raid 5.

if terms of ease of setup.
Your motherboard come with on board raid controller, you have to find in the manual for the exact setup, since it s new system, it should be fairly painless.

 

[adgelhar]

i don't think it's worth the effort of raiding two nvme ssd.

not sure what is your purpose, if you are using it mainly for productivity work, you can skip my first point. if you are a gamer, even the difference between nvme drive and sata6 based drive are quite minimal. let alone raiding the nvme drives. nvme is already extremely fast, and from my own experience, i only noticed some what of a difference in wow and gta5, where loading time are reduced by 10% using nvme drive vs sata based ssd.

from the data security point of view, with raid 0, you have double the failure rate, and also data are much more difficult to recover. which require constant back up, for a minor performance gain. if you are performance oriented, i think you should consider either raid 10 or raid 5.

if terms of ease of setup.
Your motherboard come with on board raid controller, you have to find in the manual for the exact setup, since it s new system, it should be fairly painless.

 

[adgelhar]

Thanks for othe info.

Found why I kept getting the q code 00 error. Corsair radiator cooler backplate was shorting out the intel cpu. After removing it the MB would come up just fine. Need to add some fiber washer to insulate it.

Raiding is not a lot of fun. I am not a gamer just video processing.

Thanks again,

Alan