My guess is there is an improvement also. It will have game loading time improvements with some games but are not that worried about it.Īs for random access I am unsure. With raid 0 there are measurable increases in read speeds especially with sequential reads. Good question which is better in windows jbod or raid 0. With 80-100GB games it will effectively save something like ~300-400GB of space since you would not have to maintain 4 separate volumes with at least enough free space for a single game so that updates work. Other than that it is totally not pointless. 元7 eredeti hozzászólása:One interesting question would be - what's better in this case - actual raid0 or jbod? Might be worth testing, because windows soft raid implementation is far from the best one, i've seen 100% single thread cpu load and way less then expected speeds on raid10 configurations before, and jbod theoretically should have no overhead and should be equal to single ssd speed. If possible get the 660p as it's an nvme drive and faster than ssds. And no one will judge you, everyone has different storage needs.Ģ options, you can go with one of each or 2 of the same. "Useful & informed info is appreciated."" Oh and wish to bring your attention to my last line of the post: So the cheapest 4TB I can find locally is around $800 Australian.Ģ new 1TB drives at $165 so can pay another $330 instead if I were going ahead. I do not care who agrees if I need that or not. Hard drives are way are too slow for games & want 4TB storage for games. It seems games are getting very big in size and lots of storage is needed"" "It will improve load times compared a single sata SSD but that is not my biggest priority. I have a linux based machine for anything important."" '"It is really a gaming only machine with no critical or important information on there. And if one drive fails, so does the whole array. NotkennyS eredeti hozzászólása:Virtually zero difference in load times with raid compared to a regular SSD. So then is having 4 1TB SSDs (quad level cell drives) in raid 0 a good idea for storing games? Taking the drives I have back for replacement is not an option and there are no more NVMe slots on the motherboard. It seems games are getting very big in size and lots of storage is needed. It will improve load times compared a single sata SSD but that is not my biggest priority. There will be the usual steam game updates but doubt that is a massive daily drive write situation especially spread over 4 drives.Īlso I will use an old raid card I have to attach to the hard drive (240GB one). The highest write speed required will be copying from a hard drive. They will be QVO drives so cannot endure very many writes but they seem ok for storing games. The 4TB hard drive can be its backup accessed through my external docking station I already have and backup periodically. I will use windows to create the striped volume (and not fake hardware raid 0). It will mean 4 x 1TB samsung QVO 860 drives in striped raid 0 as a single 4TB logical drive for games. My '"upgrade plan" is to get 2 more 1TB SSDs & a 4TB hard drive for a backup. All the games were backed up to an external HD, the striped drive created and the games copied back. I had one sata SSD for games but was running low on space so decided to get another. I have a linux based machine for anything important. It is really a gaming only machine with no critical or important information on there. It means storage space is gradually being used.Īdata 256 GB NVMe SX8200 pro for the boot drive.Īn old 240 GB Hard drive for general storage.Ģ x 1TB samsung QVO 860 drives in striped (raid 0) config for games. So it is steam sale time and have been splashing out a bit on my game collection.
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