Is it even possible to hook up raid 0 with two Nvme 4x without VROC key?

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Marko9111

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Hello,I have Asus rampage VI extreme(I know,I know,stupid motherboard) .Can I set up Raid 0 for two Nvme's,Samsung EVO 960?
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I would suggest that you build a volume from two SSDs presented to the OS as separate disks. In Windows, you would use the Volume Manager to do this.

One advantage of this approach is that, as far as I know, TRIM is still not supported for SSDs in RAID. Check whether or not this is true for the setup you propose. Without the TRIM command, SSDs tend to slow down over time as they use controller and write cycles moving unused blocks around.
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I believe so.

Not much point in doing so, but I recall Linus Tech Tips did a video on the very subject (using some hack to avoid needing the special dongle from Intel)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzzavO5a4OQ

Assuming you want to boot from it. If not you can set up a RAID drive via software or hardware I think.

Really you would only need that much drive performance if you are moving around truly massive files and had access to a 10Gbps network (or more)

I use a 1TB 960 Evo as my only drive and I have zero complaints over my old SATA III SSD raid setup.
 
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I have the same Nvme,but 1 TB isn't enough fr me,and SATA SSD is out of question for me.So I was planning on putting my OS on 500GB Nvme and two 1TB 960 Nvme in raid 0

 
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Because I need more space....I honestly don't care about performance boost for this type of Nvme,I only care about storage because these Nvme's are already blazing fast.
 
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The physical drive space is the same, RAID 0 or individual drives.
Why bother with the RAID?
 
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I can't split large files...

 
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1TB large?
And SATA based 2TB SSD's aren't good enough because....why?
 
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And you do understand that when one of the drives in that array fails, or a drive drops out of the array due to a loose or failed sata/power cable, you immediately lose the contents of the entire array, right? Do you have adequate backups in place?
 
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no,not 1TB large file,but when you fill your drive,files that i'm dealing with are larger,can't split 50GB ,it just complicate things.And SATA drivers are so slow,and SATA cables obstruct airflow in my case.I don't have cable clutter in my case

 
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I always use double back up-online and external SSD,for just in case.I had two HDD fails in one week,so data salvage cost was around 1000$...I have no plans to use any SATA drive anymore hehe
 
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I would suggest that you build a volume from two SSDs presented to the OS as separate disks. In Windows, you would use the Volume Manager to do this.

One advantage of this approach is that, as far as I know, TRIM is still not supported for SSDs in RAID. Check whether or not this is true for the setup you propose. Without the TRIM command, SSDs tend to slow down over time as they use controller and write cycles moving unused blocks around.
 
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