Speed and reliability

[OGMCVilleTC]

I already have one Samsung 512 pro. I'd like to raid them but I want to make it as fast ad and have a failsafe. What is the best way to do? Raid 0+1, raid five our??? What is the minimum amount of drives I'd need to accomplish your?

Thanks in advanced for info that is provided.

 

[ToddW2]

If you need more performance and have a 512gb SSD why not get a 1TB NVME SSD? WAY WAY faster than 4 normal SSD, and you can sell your existing 512.

If you want performance and some safety RAID10 (4 drives) is a good starting point... but if you're gonna dump all that $$ why not go nVME PCIE AIC ?

 

[drescherjm]

I already have one Samsung 512 pro. I'd like to raid them but I want to make it as fast ad and have a failsafe.

If this is for games and most desktop applications you will most likely not make it noticeably faster by raiding or even getting a PCIe / NVM drive. The reason is a single application is unlikely to be loading GBs at a time or use a high enough queue depth to make use of the raid. The same goes for PCIe / NVM drives.

 

[OGMCVilleTC]

I was under the impression that going nvme would require me to use my top pci-e slot.

 

[drescherjm]

I was under the impression that going nvme would require me to use my top pci-e slot.

You will not be able to do better performance wise than a nvme drive via raiding SATA SSDs. And it will likely cost more to do raid10 with the 850 pro versus even an Intel 750.

 

[OGMCVilleTC]

Thanks for the input. I've never backed up my hard drives before (i know, I know, flame me if you must) and recently had a problem where I had to reinstall. Figured raiding would be the easiest way to recover if a drive went bad. I've wanted to go nvme but am still hesitant due to price.