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I have a Gateway FX6860-ur10p. I was looking at installing two ssd for performance i saw a video from Intel on the Intel 730 and when installing two the performance is increase. But i would like to go with a Samsung 840 Pro but i have not found any information on installing two for increase performance.... what do you thing any benefits/
 
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No, not even a little bit.
RAID 0 - striped. Data is spread across both drives. If one fails, or the RAID controller fails, all is lost. With HDD's it will probably be faster. With SSD's, not so much outside of a very few use cases.

RAID 1 - mirrored. Data is written to both drives simultaneously. Can actually be slower in operation. Is helpful in one and only one circumstance....if a drive dies, and you...
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To increase performance from installing two SSDs, you typically have to put them in RAID 0, aka striping, which makes the computer think that it is a single drive. Read/write speeds increase immensely but keep in mind that the SSDs have to be completely identical.
 
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What he did not tell you... running in RAID can get you better performance with some risks - depends on which RAID mode you use. RAID was huge when HDDs were used because they are very slow compared to SSDs. Unless you "need" the speed just use them separately as normal SSDs.
-Bruce
 
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I have two SSD's myself, here is what I use. When installing two Solid State Drives for performance I created a method referred as a Master and Slave drive (no racism.) The Master drive holds the operating system and the slave drive holds your data. A simple way of configuring this is through a RAID. The RAID controls how data is shared and saved. The benifits of two Solid State Drives is amazing with the right hardware. It could be super fast but because of their abilities they are also expensive so a cheap alternative would be a SSD for your OS and a HDD for your data. This would also work with my method and through RAID's. Just remember with great power comes great responsibility so treat your SSD's well ;)
 
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Yes but wouldnt it be good to RAID the data drive with another data drive for safe keeping of data?
 
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No, not even a little bit.
RAID 0 - striped. Data is spread across both drives. If one fails, or the RAID controller fails, all is lost. With HDD's it will probably be faster. With SSD's, not so much outside of a very few use cases.

RAID 1 - mirrored. Data is written to both drives simultaneously. Can actually be slower in operation. Is helpful in one and only one circumstance....if a drive dies, and you absolutely need to keep the system running 24/7. For instance, running a webstore, when downtime = lost revenue.
With a RAID 1, the data exists on two drives. But also, any accidental deletions, corruption, virus infections, etc. It just happens twice.

It does not keep your data 'safe'.
 
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Thanks for the knowledge
 
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