SSD raid & without raid

[MaqDrew]

Hi Guys.....
I just wanna a little topic.....
How fast (2xSSD in raid 0 mode) than the single SSD?????

I have not data losses issue, I have 8TB backup driver for backup daily...

 

[captaincharisma]

SSD's are already fast so there will be no difference. all you would be doing is decreasing the life of the SSD drives if you put them in a RAID

 

[Archaic59]

Tom's tested this and posted an article with the results. You can skip to the last page if you don't want to read the whole thing.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html

Bottom line-

One SSD on its own scores again in the contrived tests we put together. The performance differences when we boot up and shut down Windows 8, then fire up different applications, are marginal at best and not noticeable in practice. Single drives actually manage to outperform the striped arrays some of the time, even.

If you're planning an upgrade and want to know whether to buy a couple of 128 GB drives and put them in RAID 0 or just grab a single 256 GB SSD, for example, the answer still seems clear enough to us: just grab the large drive and use one.

 

[Snipergod87]

SSD's are already fast so there will be no difference. all you would be doing is decreasing the life of the SSD drives if you put them in a RAID

Not sure how you would be decreasing performance is the write's are split across multiple drives unless TRIM becomes a problem. But there have been benchmarks done with SSD's in RAID 0 and show that they do not impact performance, only benchmark results in some scenarios. Toms Hardware did some articles on it.

Peronally I would advise against it in addition to the fact it doesnt make sense.

Here is one article, there is a newer one though
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485-13.html

 

[USAFRet]

For the tl-dr regarding SSD + RAID 0, see this: