I may have gotten a little overly ambitious with storage ideas for my new build and purchased two of these things. I wanted to try the NVME drives, but I also knew I wanted ~1TB of SSD storage space, so...
I definitely don't need the performance of RAID0, but it would be more convenient to have one single 800-900-ish GB partition (depending on OPing I suppose). And I'm currently planning on getting a Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7 which has two tempting M.2 slots. But then again it would also be convenient not to have to deal with RAID0 at all (I haven't messed with RAID at all since my WD Raptor's in the early 2000's, but I remember it being a headache)
So if option 1 is using them in RAID0, and option 2 is using them as separate drives, then for option 3 - with the same budget - I could just return one of them and get a 1TB 850 Evo to use as a second drive. Which might be what I'm leaning towards at the moment.
The NVME drives might be overkill for what I do anyway. A lot of gaming, some multimedia work and some pretty extreme multitasking, but I don't tend to work with/move huge files around all that much.
I definitely don't need the performance of RAID0, but it would be more convenient to have one single 800-900-ish GB partition (depending on OPing I suppose). And I'm currently planning on getting a Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7 which has two tempting M.2 slots. But then again it would also be convenient not to have to deal with RAID0 at all (I haven't messed with RAID at all since my WD Raptor's in the early 2000's, but I remember it being a headache)
So if option 1 is using them in RAID0, and option 2 is using them as separate drives, then for option 3 - with the same budget - I could just return one of them and get a 1TB 850 Evo to use as a second drive. Which might be what I'm leaning towards at the moment.
The NVME drives might be overkill for what I do anyway. A lot of gaming, some multimedia work and some pretty extreme multitasking, but I don't tend to work with/move huge files around all that much.