SSD Storage upgrade struggles

[DuikentVogeltje]

So i wanna upgrade my storage,
I am looking for about 500 Gb of storage i saw that 500Gb ssd`s are about 150 Pound
also i saw that 120 gb ssd`s are about 40 pound what if to get 4X 120 gb and put them in raid 0
instad of getting an one 500 gb ssd if dont minding the 10 pound difrents i will make weakly / dayly backups to not lose any data if one ssd fails.

(gotta be from amazon.co.uk tho)
(both drives were 500MB/s Read / Write)

 

[mcconkeymike]

That's definitely an option, but I've done a 2 SSD RAID0 and it failed and became a real pain in the ass. Granted that when it worked I had read/writes of about 1100, but eventually I ended up with single drive speeds, BSODs, and headaches. Weird thing was that once I had the drives back into single drive setups, the read/writes were still over 500 even though at the end of my time in RAID the RAID0 speeds were only about 500/500.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

RAID, especially 4 way RAID 0 is a terrible idea. Not only are you introducing 4 points of failure there is no speed advantage. Any decent 500GB SSD is going to basically max the SATA connection and smaller SSDs are slower than larger SSDs anyway.

 

[boosted1g]

Agreed that RAID0 is just asking for problems.
Much better to just get 500gb SSD.

Now do you need all 500gb on the SSD? If it is not all programs/games then you wont see much of any slow down using magnetic for files and media.

 

[Reise Martin]

I went a whole year without backing anything up and the day I did a backup my mates drive died on him before he backed up this post reminded me of that xd