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I just snatched up 4 kingston SSDs that were on sale as a group on newegg. I want to do a raid 0 setup with all 4 of them at once. I'm just curious of what the degree of diminishing returns is going to be for these 4 SSDs in raid 0 would be. I've seen a video where Barnacles Nerdgasm had 4 1TB SSD in raid 0 and got absolutely ridiculous speeds. I do not have a raid card, this is where the money for performance would drastically go down for me. i have a 6700k, pc mate z170 motherboard, r9 390, and windows 10. i cant think of anything else that would be noteworthy for this articles purpose. it will probably not be my boot drive, at least at first. If i left anything out please let me know. hopefully this will get some positive news. thank you!
 
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Check on some other RAIDs, RAID0 is not the only one, if you are wiling to experiment that is. Parsonally i rather like using multiple disks for different OSs, right now I'm using 4 OSs on same computer, 5 if you count XP on an old disposable HDD that I fire up occasionally out of nostalgia.
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If you are using these drives in a NAS you will be limited by gigabit (100Mbs) speeds built into your motherboard. However if you are using this inside your personal rig in raid 0, like Count Mike said those speeds are used for benchmarks and bragging rights. Therefore are not real world tests in a real scenario. Even then games dont even improve that much once you add more than one SSD. Software raid shouldn't limit that much if you are only using them on the one OS. If you are going to use these drives I recommend making a NAS and using the one of the SSD's for cache and the others for storage. Software RAID can also be dangerous in RAID 0 if the software is to go corrupt too.
 
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Check on some other RAIDs, RAID0 is not the only one, if you are wiling to experiment that is. Parsonally i rather like using multiple disks for different OSs, right now I'm using 4 OSs on same computer, 5 if you count XP on an old disposable HDD that I fire up occasionally out of nostalgia.
 
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UPDATE: I ran these in a raid 0 for about a year and even switched motherboards and switched back with no hiccups or reprogramming at all. i didnt put these as my os drive however. but they have been rock solid for me, most games dont benefit from the speeds. GTA 5 does however with load times somewhat significantly. i got 1870MB/s seq read and 632MB/s seq Write on crystal diskmark if anyone was curious of the benchmarks
 
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