Secondary storage drive for gaming

GraySenshi · Jul 14, 2016

Ok I'm currently using 2x 512gb 850pro SSDs and I'm out of space should I get a new OS drive and a nother ssd and make the raid 0 larger or run the OS the same with the 2x ssd raid 0 and get a hdd as a secondary gaming storage and play games off the hdd how much slower will that be

greens · Jul 14, 2016

Running games off a platter is slower, for sure, but the storage is very cheap.

Running games off an SSD not in raid wouldn't be that much slower to be honest.

I am against RAID in desktops for a number of reasons, i'd just add another SSD for games, no need to RAID it at all.

faalin · Jul 14, 2016

Might want to read through this about raid 0 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html

There have been tests thought the years on raid 0, when it comes down to it for gaming there is no real performance gain to be had, some games will load faster or levels will load faster, but for some other games there are no performance gains. This also will not get you anymore FPS in games. The only benefit Raid 0 will get you in a gaming computer is instead of 1 drive 1 point of failure you now have 1 drive with 2 points of failure. I hope you have really good backups

I run all my games off a WD 6TB red drive and cant see any performance between the game loaded on that drive or one of my SSD's.

GraySenshi · Jul 14, 2016

Yea I'm aware of the possible of a drive failure and I'm prepared for that there isn't any sensitive files on the drive only game data and now adays it's backed up on the servers anything that isn't is on being backed up

Future once m.2 drops in price I plan on getting a 1tb for the OS then using the SSDs for only game data and disks for mass storage

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