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2 SSD Raid 0 how to help

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mendez816

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I just bought 2 1tb SSD drives and I'm looking for an install guide. I'm going to be installing on an intel x79 chipset. My main questions are what strip size is best? How to enable the trim feature? Should I install the irst or rste drivers from intel?
 
For what reason do you want to RAID 0 two 1tb SSDs? For general computing, leaving it as two separate drives is better.
 
or use RAID1 as a quick read of RAID0 and data are protected. Cons: only one disk capacity.
 
you can use windows software RAID called striping or Intel RAID using its software. Google IRST or whatever. Been a long time since I used it.

RAID 0 is only good for large transfers or high queue depth and adds some extra chance for data loss. You decide what is best for you.

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Trim by default will be enabled with the onboard chipset RST driver. Performance won't be impacted much based on if you choose RSTe or just regular iRST. I recommend iRST just for ease of use and better support.

Your stripe size should be 64K given you only have 2 drives. If you had more than 2 drives you could go with a 32K stripe size but in general stripe size doesn't matter all that much unless you are using a corner case that can abuse that functionality.
 
Kaos_Drem said:
Trim by default will be enabled with the onboard chipset RST driver. Performance won't be impacted much based on if you choose RSTe or just regular iRST. I recommend iRST just for ease of use and better support.

Your stripe size should be 64K given you only have 2 drives. If you had more than 2 drives you could go with a 32K stripe size but in general stripe size doesn't matter all that much unless you are using a corner case that can abuse that functionality.
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can you elaborate what you mean? I don't knwow aht you mean by corner case
 
SomeGuy133 said:
can you elaborate what you mean? I don't knwow aht you mean by corner case
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Basically that you are doing benchmarks or access types with the drive that utilize the stripe size better than others. Generally windows performance between the stripe sizes is pretty similar. Read performance goes up from stripe 16-32-64 but only by negligible amounts.

SSD RAID 0 Stripe Size Differences (Benchmarks) + RAID 0 Mixing Different Drives vs Same Drive (Benchmarks)

thats a pretty good example.
 
If you know this little about RAID0 you shouldn't be using it.

SSDs are still far from reliable. Running RAID0 on them without good reason (you actually need the throughput for work of some description, not to slightly reduced game load times) is stupid.
 
silent-circuit said:
If you know this little about RAID0 you shouldn't be using it.

SSDs are still far from reliable. Running RAID0 on them without good reason (you actually need the throughput for work of some description, not to slightly reduced game load times) is stupid.
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Considering the failure rate on most ssd's are in the very low single digit %'s i'd be curious what you would say is reliable. I've been doing ssd raids for quite a while now (since 2011) and haven't had any issues revolving around stability or reliability.
 
Considering the number of times I've seen people claim something like a 20% failure rate within 6 months around here I certainly wouldn't do it.
 
ive been running 2 60GB OCZ vertex 3 drives in raid0 since 2012 without a single problem. if you know the risk have at it.
 
silent-circuit said:
Considering the number of times I've seen people claim something like a 20% failure rate within 6 months around here I certainly wouldn't do it.
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I sometimes wonder how much forums actually represent the people doing stuff. There is such a thing as a vocal minority. Doesn't make your statement wrong or even misplaced really, but people that are generally having a decent time with their tech/product/life tend to not review things or mention things unless prompted for them.
 
Kaos_Drem said:
Your stripe size should be 64K given you only have 2 drives. If you had more than 2 drives you could go with a 32K stripe size but in general stripe size doesn't matter all that much unless you are using a corner case that can abuse that functionality.
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SomeGuy133 said:
can you elaborate what you mean? I don't know what you mean by corner case
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I don't want to put words in his mouth, but he might be referring to small files wasting space because you have to use increments of blocks to write files. Here is a easy example that shows a lot of very small files can consume a lot of disc space because of the way files are allocated to blocks.

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westrock2000 said:
I don't want to put words in his mouth, but he might be referring to small files wasting space because you have to use increments of blocks to write files. Here is a easy example that shows a lot of very small files can consume a lot of disc space because of the way files are allocated to blocks.

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oh that i understand lol.
 
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