Two SSD or not two SSD?

[mister]

As Swa says indeed.

Frankly I'm somewhat surprised people are contemplating running dual SSDs. Personally I've found a combination of SSD & HDD to offer optimal trade-offs at this stage. (OS & key data on SSD, mass storage on the HDD)

I tend to agree. Two SSDs are really overkill for normal desktop usage, but if you are trying to burn cash you might as well just buy three and put them in raid 5 for extra speed & redundancy!

 

[nelis]

Please post full specs cause maybe you can spend your money better elsewhere rather than getting 2 ssd's

 

[Wasabee!]

I tend to agree. Two SSDs are really overkill for normal desktop usage, but if you are trying to burn cash you might as well just buy three and put them in raid 5 for extra speed & redundancy!

Worst idea. RAID 5 doesn't support TRIM.

 

[Zuner]

feed-your-greed-for-speed-by-installing-ssds-in-raid-0

 

[Thor]

Please post full specs cause maybe you can spend your money better elsewhere rather than getting 2 ssd's

Amd Fx-6100 6 core 3.8Ghz
Asus Nvidia GTX580 x2
MSI Military something something 65
Corsair Dominator 2 x 4Gb Ddr3 1600Mhz
128Gb SSD

 

[Necuno]

Yeah, OP, you can do that. For nearly two decades I've split OS and data across two drives, so I can reformat/replace the OS drive and keep data intact. In the past I simply moved My Documents to the second HDD, made sure the Outlook PST was in there as well (it used to be in AppData), and could then rejig the OS drive anytime.

Used to have an SSD for OS and 3 x 2TB drives for data and backups. Media are on a separate server.

Now I use two SSDs in my desktop rig.

I've migrated all data to the cloud so only placeholders are local, plus a few hundred frequently-used files. I do keep an offline backup just in case the cloud evaporates or the internet crashes permanently.

Now one SSD is primary active for OSs. And the second SSD is for OS backup images and ad hoc transient files like video capture/editing, etc. With Acronis I can restore any OS image to any system or VM.

Been doing this as well, much easier than to have to backup, move, cdrom, usb etc etc.

 

[Hades911]

*looks around*

Pretty sure everyone in this thread has completely lost the plot and/or doesn't understand SSDs...

RAID/stripe two SSDs to improve performance on a desktop machine??? wut...sure you can also strap two ferraris together with ducttape...more horsepower but not a superior engineering design.

[email protected] you would not see a tangible performance improvement unless the existing drive is close to full. Do consider slvr's backup suggestion though.

+1

 

[Space_Chief]

SSD and various internal HDD/externals on desktop.
SSD and flash card storage and external HDDs/SSDs on laptops.

RAID, only if you really need very fast throughput, I guess editing RAW 4K or 10bit RAW 1080p files.