Hardware SSD RAID 10 vs. Software SSD RAID 10

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See...here we have the beginnings of a bit more info.

For that, in a money making operation, when you're doing this all day every day, possibly a RAID 1.
RAID 10 gains you little if any performance increase.

10 is 2 x RAID 1, striped with each other.
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/RAID-10-redundant-array-of-independent-disks

But with the SSD, the 0 striped part gains little if any performance.
Depends on the implementation of Software or Hardware RAID, One issue with RAID 10 is all drives will wear evenly so they will all die at the same time. Some software and hardware RAID 5 solutions can change how the parity is calculated and will wear one disk faster than others so you won't suffer a catastrophic data loss.

A better route would be using 2 NVMe SSD's in RAID 1 (if you want data parity) as they will be much faster than any SATA SSD
 

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I don't have 2 SSDs but I've got 3 HDDs in RAID0 on the software side, using Windows Disk Management.

Intel's known for their failure-prone RAID chips, so I'd rather use the "safer" software option, even if it means the data rate will be a little slower.

When a disk is beginning to fail, you can use cloning software to move the RAID data to a new disk without breaking the array.
 


Are you talking about storage spaces?
 


Sorry I thought you wanted incredibly short and precise statements.

Raid is an uptime protection technology through the use of redundancy, it also offers some speed benefits which don't really apply to SSD's. It does not protect in any way against corruption, viruses, ransom ware etc. So you still need a backup to cover these eventualities.

Therefore unless you need 100% uptime just having a frequent (daily/3hourly) backup offers a high level of functionality and is cheaper as only 2 disks are involved, the source and the backup and not 5 disks, 4xsource and 1xbackup.
 
RAID 1 is for uptime (your business can still function even if a drive dies), not data protection. If you accidentally delete or overwrite a file on RAID 1, both copies get deleted/overwritten and are lost.

For most people, RAID 0 is pointless on SSDs. Unless you're working with lots of large (sequential) files (e.g. video editing), RAID 0 will actually be slower than a single SSD. The reason is that most of the wait time with SSDs is for small file (4k) read/writes. When you RAID 0 a small file, it just turns a single 4k file into two 4k files spread across two SSDs. And the time to retrieve them is the same as for a single SSD. Add in the time for RAID 0 to piece the two files back together, and RAID 0 is actually slower than a single SSD at 4k read/writes.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html
 

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Use case is video editing, composting and animation and I'd be trying to protect against data loss during the middle of production.
 

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See...here we have the beginnings of a bit more info.

For that, in a money making operation, when you're doing this all day every day, possibly a RAID 1.
RAID 10 gains you little if any performance increase.

10 is 2 x RAID 1, striped with each other.
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/RAID-10-redundant-array-of-independent-disks

But with the SSD, the 0 striped part gains little if any performance.
 
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Would you say RAID 10 is unnecessary in my case?

 

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Yes I would.
At most, the RAID 1 mirror, to ward off the tiny possibility of a drive actually dying while you are doing something.. Of course, this also requires actual backups.

But with SSD's, the RAID 0 (stripe) gains no real speed boost.