SSD Raid Questions

[Zahid Shabir]

thinking of going with a raid 0 setup for some secondary SSD's (own the Corsair Force Series MP500 240GB M.2 as boot drive) and i thought of getting some SSD's for secondary storage as i currently only have a boot drive and nothing else i built my PC a couple of months ago and i saw the Corsair Force Series LE 960GB (would not have gone for raid if it was available in larger capacities) which has Black/Yellow stickers on it which will match my Black/Yellow colour scheme perfectly
what i want to know is
1) How much faster on average will games boot up on an 2.5" SSD such as the one i mentioned compared to a regular HDD
2) How slower would my SSD's get and over how long if i put my games on them (I mod my games too and may have multiple copies of a game for example a copy of GTA V for mods and 1 for GTO (online multiplayer)) and as a result may be copying quite a bit of data and obviously be deleting some things here and there I do not have a lrge selection of games i play as i maily play GTA but i do have other games such as CSGO and a couple of sports games and am thinking of getting some more FPS/Fighting/Sandbox/Open World type of games
3) If and how much faster would the SSD be in raid 0
4) Chances of drives failing (i do not want to be told you have 2x more chance of drives failing as you have 2x drives or whatever compared to non raid i know that i want to know how likely it is at all and not to be compared to anything else)

 

[13thmonkey]

1 - a lot, probably 20% of the current time, so 100s would become 20s
2 - they wouldn't until you reach the write limits of the drive, that's not easy to do even if you are trying to.
3 - not very much at all, and significantly more risky
4 - no one knows, drives fail, it happens, have a backup, a lot of 'failures' would have been earlier models, where trim was implemented poorly, if at all, I've had a crucial M4 fail because the garbage collect was poor. Whether the answer is 1% or 5% is irrelevant, if you get unlucky and it happens then you've got a problem, they are not perfect, but nothing is.

 

[USAFRet]

Before you go down the SSD + RAID 0 road, read this all the way through:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html

 

[Zahid Shabir]

the SSD i am after is Corsair Force Series LE 960 GB what is the failure rate of that SSD

 

[13thmonkey]

They were only released in June 2016 (or thereabouts), so the failure rate won't be known for 2-3 years yet. That's the problem with failure rates on new tech, it takes a very long time for it to become known, simply because units have to fail.