Advice on what storage to add to a new build.

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dancomputerman

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I am doing a rebuild of an mid-high end ITX gaming machine. I have collected a list of SSDs and am stumped on which I should add to get the best zooooom :). Anyone have any opinions?

Board will be a GA-Z170N-Gaming 5. I will be using a 950 Pro 512 in the m.2 so I will only have 5 SATA ports to utilize. Here is the list of SSDs I have on-hand to choose from.

PNY CS2211 240GB x 2
850 Evo 120GB x 2
850 Evo 500GB
850 PRO 256GB
WD Black Dual Drive 1TB HDD/128GB SSD
Sandisk Extreme 480GB
Intel 530 120GB

(My thoughts were to include the Dual drive no matter what as it has the 1TB of magnetic storage on it which is useful for cold storage.)
 
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drtweak

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I see you have X2 on some there. I'm asssuming you are going to RAID 0 them? Don't. Just get the bigger version. You will spend more money on getting two drives to get the same space to see a speed increase that well you won't see as it once a SSD is already so faster that most stuff won't benifit from it. RAIDing SSD's is only really useful in big data centers where hundreds of people are accessing it at the same time.

Go with the Evo 500Gb if is it just for game storage or programs.

what are you going to be doing on this?
 
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dancomputerman

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After some thought. I think I am going to go with the following config.

850 PRO 256GB
850 Evo 500GB
WD Black Dual Drive 1TB HDD/128GB SSD
PNY CS2211 240GB x 2 in RAID0

I work in a data center and RAID is useful there and at home :). I put the 2 x Evo 120 GB in my file server and got the following result. (File server has a Adaptec 6805 which is miles better than on-board desktop raid but should see similar performance on a newer motherboard.)

EVO_R0.png


 
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Yea you will see speed increases. WhT are you going to be doing? Only difference between Evo and Pro is warrenty and write endurance. If you aret going to be doing a lot of writting to the ssd no need to spend extra mondy on Pro. If you are going to be using it as a scratch disk, sql databse etc the yea get the pro.
 
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dancomputerman

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All the drives posted above I have on hand :). Just deciding which ones to put in. I think I got a a good idea now. The only remaining question is what drive to put the OS on...
 
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