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So being that I designed my PC to run off of 6 SSD drives and I am currently only using one.  Should I take the next step to rebuild?  Or should I write it off and start all over with a new rig.  I just thing the wife will be mad if I breake the bad news to her that it is time again.

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You're saying you have 6 SSD drives in the computer, but Windows is only on one drive? You'd have to reinstall the OS after creating a RAID-0/1/5/10, etc if you wanted to utilize them all (wipes all existing data). 

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If you are both trying to get your post counts up good job :yahoo:

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in command prompt  type " msinfo32 "  without quotes

will tell what version of OS are running  now

 

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Raid SSD drives? Hell no. Been there done that. In most cases it will actually be Much SLOWER than a single hi read/write speed SSD because of the raid controller and the . 

 

And forget about striped Raid. Your sequential writes will be faster but your Read speeds will be cut almost in 1/2 It will be slower than a single SSD in the long run.

 

Check this chart out. There are Samsung 840 evo drives. 128gb 256gb and 512gb all tested as single drives and raid 0. Raid 0 striped was not included in this graph because it was less than 1/2 the performance of a single SSD drive. Raid 0 Non striped was a whopping 2-3% faster but you have No backups if 1 drive were to crash.

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Raid 5 and 1+0 (raid 10) was also tested and found to be JUST slightly faster than 1 SSD drive but they had major stability issues (randomly dropping raid is the worst) with all of the raid controllers they tested.

 

 

 

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I tried the Raid thing years ago and had nothing but issues.  My wife hates it when I say its that time again...lol   

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Well I have done a 6 drive raid 0 as with SSD there is no reason to nor do it.  Also did a raid 1-0 2-3 drive strip and the performance was unreal.  I will never raid a mechanical again.  SSD all the time.  I used to build Storage arrays so that was why I did it on this.  Currently it is a single drive.  I could image this one and move it to a new RAID with no problems it is just if I want to.

Been dreaming of finishing this rig for about 2 tears. :(

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