Should I put my ssds in raid zero for gaming?

Bloodbath1298

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I have two 500gb WD ssds for storing games and a 256gb Samsung m.2 for my OS. my question is whether or not I should run my two ssds in raid zero for 1gb a second instead of 500mb a second. I'm not worried about the 2% chance of data loss because I can always redownload my games if something happened. is it worth setting them up as raid zero or should I continue using them the way they are? if I reinstall windows on my m.2 will it corrupt all of my games and make me reformat my ssds? will it put stress or anything on my ssds making them more likely to fail?

ps: I can't stand loading screens. the faster they are the better. also, I have both ssds freshly formatted right now with nothing on them.
 
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RAID0 with 2 SSDs wouldn't bring you anything as far as games are concerned. All you get is faster very large file transfer but reading small file games are mostly consisted of wouldn't be any faster.

Bloodbath1298

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so having double the read and write speed wouldn't cut my loading screens in half?
 
Nope, 4K speeds are most important as most programs/games/OS are bunch of files around that size and RAID0 almost doubles only sequential speed while the rest are only marginally improved. It has it's role of course, like continual heavy data streaming/writing etc.
 

USAFRet

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SSD's in RAID 0 do NOT bring 'double'.
Read here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html
 

Bloodbath1298

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What if I just like one hard drive to show up in my pc instead of 2 does it really hurt anything to run in raid zero other than increasing chances of data loss a little bit?