New to Raid 0 and should I do it

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Hello, I'm new to building hackintosh and I'm going to use the hackintosh for mainly music production. I ordered two samsung pro 850 Sata SSDs (2x256GB) and thinking about raid 0 because of the speed and combination of storage (2x256 = 512GB of total storage) I know that if one drive fails, i lose all my data. Is there a better way? I generally store my music plugins in external drive and loading the files from the SSD.

options:
1. Make raid 0 with two samsung ssds as operating drive (dual boot into windows and OSx and frequently store backups into external HDDs.

2. Install windows and Osx in seperate SSD drives and access music plugins from HDDs.

3. Buying another 4 HDDs and make raid 10 to store music plugins. Access music plugins using the SSD (not on raid 0.)
 
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androbourne
Honestly Raid 0 with two SSD's isn't really going to do much for you. It is an SSD, its going to process the requests you need fast enough anyways with just one drive.

Now if you are trying to expand storage, thats another situation. But for just 2 SSDs, I wouldn't recommend a Raid. You are better off getting one 500gb SSD instead.

If you are going to strip them and try to get faster speeds then go with more then just two drives...

You are better off doing something like a Raid 1 if anything for data protection (mirroring) but still, a good backup plan would trump the Raid in terms of protection and less hassle.

Plus when a Raid goes bad, its can be a pain to deal with.

I personally wouldn't recommend Raiding especially with SSDs...
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androbourne

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Honestly Raid 0 with two SSD's isn't really going to do much for you. It is an SSD, its going to process the requests you need fast enough anyways with just one drive.

Now if you are trying to expand storage, thats another situation. But for just 2 SSDs, I wouldn't recommend a Raid. You are better off getting one 500gb SSD instead.

If you are going to strip them and try to get faster speeds then go with more then just two drives...

You are better off doing something like a Raid 1 if anything for data protection (mirroring) but still, a good backup plan would trump the Raid in terms of protection and less hassle.

Plus when a Raid goes bad, its can be a pain to deal with.

I personally wouldn't recommend Raiding especially with SSDs, unless you are doing something crazy like high end video editing\rendering.

I think a raid is overkill for what you need and just more troublesome then its worth.
 
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RAID 0 + SSD is rarely the answer to any question.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html
 
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captaincharisma

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RAID 0 with SSD's have no advantages other then combining 2 SSD's making it look like 1 physical drive in your operating system. the biggest risk is when you are combining 2 drives if one of them fails all your data spanned over both SSD's will be unrecoverable. add to the fact putting an SSD drive in a RAID would cut its lifetime in half because its doing more work then what a standalone SSD would be doing.

in the end it's not worth it
 
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