Best Raid 0 Setup ( Kingston SSDNow V300 2.5 ) Any Good?

crispykiller96 · Oct 11, 2015

Hi there i have windows 8.1 and i am am looking to add another SSD for a raid 0 setup

i am always copying and installing software so i think this will help lots with speed and hopefully some games

I have been holding off installing windows 10 so i think this will be a good time to install this i don't have any important files so a raid 1 setup would not be for me

Now i currently have

Toshiba HDTS212EZSTA 128GB SATA 6/GBs 9.5mm 2.5inch SSD

Will this SSD work well i don't have a big budget are these reliable

Kingston SSDNow V300 2.5" 120GB SATA III

What type of speed increase will i get and the important question is is it worth it my board is a M5A97 EVO R2.0 i have never setup a raid setup but i have the motherboard instruction manual to help i am aware i will format the entire drive of both :-D

Thanks

Joe

ss202sl · Oct 11, 2015

Raid 0 and SSD's do not work well together - it won't get you the speeds like you think it should. Buy a bigger SSD, use the old one as an application(or game) drive, and get a HDD for data.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html

R_1 · Oct 11, 2015

the kingston is @ 100MBps slower than the toshiba, that will slow the array down. Admittedly not really enough to notice, the kingston has a R/W rate of 450/450MBps the toshiba's R/W rate is 554/501. Not A huge difference but I would find a drive with similar/better performance to what you have.

If it were me I would get this one to pair with what you have already
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=mushkin+SSd&N=-1&isNodeId=1

I prefer SSD caching to just SSD's admittedly in the minority here.
if interested look into fancycache. http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/fancy-cache/
http://www.hardcoreware.net/ssd-cache-performance/4/

geofelt · Oct 11, 2015

Raid-0 has been over hyped as a performance enhancer.
Sequential benchmarks do look wonderful, but the real world does not seem to deliver the indicated performance benefits for most
desktop users. The reason is, that sequential benchmarks are coded for maximum overlapped I/O rates.
It depends on reading a stripe of data simultaneously from each raid-0 member, and that is rarely what we do.
The OS does mostly small random reads and writes, so raid-0 is of little use there.
There are some apps that will benefit. They are characterized by reading large files in a sequential overlapped manner.

I tried raid-0 some time ago.
I could tell no difference in performance.
When I later replaced the two with a single larger drive, it felt faster.

Add a second drive for capacity, but do not expect to see any performance difference.

FWIW, I think Samsung EVO and Intel 730 are the best ssd drives available today.
They are in control of the underlying nand chips and controllers.

USAFRet · Oct 11, 2015

There is one word to be used in conjunction with RAID 0 + SSD.
That word is Don't. OK, that's two words if you want to be pedantic.

That same word should be used with the Kingston SSDNow V300.

"What type of speed increase will i get..."
None.
Read this: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html

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