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SSD or Second Monitor?

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  • Gaming
  • Battlefield 4
  • NAS / RAID
  • Plextor
  • M5s
  • Samsung
  • Windows
  • VX239H
  • 840EVO
  • Components
  • Asus
  • SSD
  • Monitors
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July 29, 2014 8:06:59 PM

Well, the title pretty much sums it up, I'm looking to either purchase a second monitor, or another SSD which I will be running in RAID 0 with my current one.

My current SSD is a Plextor M5S 128GB which only has around 50~gigs of storage left, and I put some of my mostly played games on it, namely Battlefield 4 which takes up quite a huge chunk of its storage. The SSD I'm planning to get is a Samsung 840EVO 256GB

My current monitor is an Asus VS228H, I would love a second monitor to browse the web during gaming as I don't have to alt+tab out of my game. the monitor I'm planning to get is an Asus VX239H

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a b 4 Gaming
July 29, 2014 8:18:40 PM

Don't get the 256 GB,

A RAID 0 (also known as a stripe set or striped volume) splits data evenly across two or more disks (striped) without parity information for speed. RAID 0 was not one of the original RAID levels and provides no data redundancy. RAID 0 is normally used to increase performance, although it can also be used as a way to create a large logical disk out of two or more physical ones.

A RAID 0 can be created with disks of differing sizes, but the storage space added to the array by each disk is limited to the size of the smallest disk. For example, if a 100 GB disk is striped together with a 350 GB disk, the size of the array will be 200 GB (100 GB × 2).

The diagram shows how the data is distributed into Ax stripes to the disks. Accessing the stripes in the order A1, A2, A3, ... provides the illusion of a larger and faster drive. Once the stripe size is defined on creation it needs to be maintained at all times.--Wikipedia, RAID 0

My Opinon

Get the second monitor
July 29, 2014 9:53:35 PM

Alpha3031 said:
Don't get the 256 GB,

A RAID 0 (also known as a stripe set or striped volume) splits data evenly across two or more disks (striped) without parity information for speed. RAID 0 was not one of the original RAID levels and provides no data redundancy. RAID 0 is normally used to increase performance, although it can also be used as a way to create a large logical disk out of two or more physical ones.

A RAID 0 can be created with disks of differing sizes, but the storage space added to the array by each disk is limited to the size of the smallest disk. For example, if a 100 GB disk is striped together with a 350 GB disk, the size of the array will be 200 GB (100 GB × 2).

The diagram shows how the data is distributed into Ax stripes to the disks. Accessing the stripes in the order A1, A2, A3, ... provides the illusion of a larger and faster drive. Once the stripe size is defined on creation it needs to be maintained at all times.--Wikipedia, RAID 0

My Opinon

Get the second monitor


Thanks, but if I do get the 256GB SSD, what are your suggestion in running it together with my existing 128GB?
a b 4 Gaming
July 29, 2014 10:47:49 PM

JBOD
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