SSD's in RAID 0 vs Single SSD

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Elderavo

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I am building a PC and am stuck on deciding how to set up my SSD's. I plan on getting one or more Neutron GTXs and I was wondering how I should set them up to maximize speed. Should I set them up in RAID 0 (with an HDD backup) or grab a higher capacity single SSD?
 
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RAID 0 will give you about twice the performance of a single drive, but only in drive-intensive tasks (such as level loading in games). It won't make any difference to your framerate when gaming, and probably won't be noticeable when just web-surfing. It also gives roughly twice the chance of failure (because if one of the drives goes down, the array becomes unusable; it's not exactly double the probability, but close enough), and will actually slow down bootup, because it has to check the status of the drives and give you time to press a key to adjust the RAID configuration.

At that budget, I'd suggest this for the ssd:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz7pd256bw
and this for the hdd...
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I don't want to spend more than 225$ per drive. Thank you for the chart, but my question was more "RAID 0 or single drive" performance.
 
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RAID 0 will give you about twice the performance of a single drive, but only in drive-intensive tasks (such as level loading in games). It won't make any difference to your framerate when gaming, and probably won't be noticeable when just web-surfing. It also gives roughly twice the chance of failure (because if one of the drives goes down, the array becomes unusable; it's not exactly double the probability, but close enough), and will actually slow down bootup, because it has to check the status of the drives and give you time to press a key to adjust the RAID configuration.

At that budget, I'd suggest this for the ssd:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz7pd256bw
and this for the hdd:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st4000vn000
 
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