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SSD Raid 0 worth it?

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Sup fellas....About to build a new rig with a intel 3770k under water(don't want to wait on Haswell) and going to get 2 Titans...

I already ordered a New Samsung non-pro 500gb SSD and was thinking about splurging for a 2nd one...if the benefits were worth it?


I have an ocz vertex 4 that I put in my laptop to replace a hdd, and tbh, I really don't notice to much difference, albeit the latop has a slow core I3 and not really blistering fast to begin with...

I know that trim support was supposed to be updated and supported by Wndows 8 for raid arrays...Did that ever happen? I can get a good deal on 2 Samsung ssd's...these are the slower nand versions that received a gold rating from [H]

I have read that SSD's in raid offer more headaches to users then performance, so I just want these questions answered correctly before I take the plunge..Thanks fellas...
 
andrewsmc1 said:
If you can afford 2 Titans, just go all out and do it. Plain n simple.
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LOL I agree. Who cares if it's actually worth it, if you can afford the splurge then splurge your heart out and make all of us jealous.

I don't know how much revolves around Windows 8 vs Windows 7 when it comes to TRIM support for RAID in-particular. Sounds more like a mobo issue so if you have the right one then you should be good with maybe a couple tweaks.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/292701-32-raid-trim-support
 
I have 2 Intel 520's in RAID 0 on my Video Editing rig and I love it. It will feed HD video to the CPU faster than my i7 3770 + 6950 can crunch it!

eliminating bottlenecks is amazing for the first couple days... then you just find new bottlenecks :)
 
Ive only entcountered problems usin RAID 0. U wont see any performance increase anyways.
 
eveon said:
Ive only entcountered problems usin RAID 0. U wont see any performance increase anyways.
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I have been running raid 0 for moths with no issues

Ias for perfomance

I havent done much more than diskbench but I can beat the advertised speeds by 10-30% depending on what I do

so not a huge increase
 
I've not seen huge advantages of running RAID 0 on system drives. Consider a higher-capacity drive instead of 2 smaller.

That said, I have run several SSDs in RAID 0 off a LSI Raid card for use as a video capture/editing "scratch" drive. Capturing uncompressed HD video at certain resolutions and frame rates can require more than many SSDs can sustain.
 
There really won't be any noticeable difference. I mean if you have the money then it's your decision, but that still doesn't mean you should waste it. Spend it on some super nice watercooling gear instead!
 
it all depends on use case...

a single SSD is so vastly better than a traditional hard drive that the gain from having a RAID 0 array will not be as noticeable (real world uses)

but i know I see tangable differences in video editing and render speeds....
 
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