12-06-2018 11:21 AM - last edited on 03-06-2024 09:57 PM by ROGBot
12-06-2018 08:43 PM
12-07-2018 10:31 AM
12-19-2018 02:41 PM
12-19-2018 08:46 PM
Riicckk wrote:
Getting RAID to work consistently on domestic gaming rigs is just not worth the hassle, especially now with fast SSD drives and NVMe drives. In everyday use you wont notice very little difference to a single drive. It will only show up in benchmarking if you can stand the hassle.
Many years ago I played around with RAID with HDD's on SuperMicro server boards with LSI hardware RAID cards and also software RAID. I lost count the number of times I lost my RAID or broke the raid through updates etc. In the end I just gave up with RAID and stuck to Velocirapters which were fast enough.
RAID is fine in the server world, mostly, due to the infrastructure, sparsely spaced updates and 24/7 operation. Lately it has become more of a problem, with updates breaking RAID on servers, but the server environment is more geared up for it with enterprise backup methods.
Do yourself a favour and ditch the idea of RAID on gaming rigs ; just setup with single NVMe drives, You wont regret it.....
12-20-2018 12:43 AM
You cant raid up two drives on the DIMM.2.
You can raid DIMM.2_2 with a PCIE drive or DIMM2.1 with an M2 drive under the armour. The raid with a PCIE and the DIMM.2_2 just became plausible in VROC with the 905P 380GB intel drives. If I was just going after file space that needed to be fast Id install a hyperX 16 card with 4 of the 905P drives but thats gonna run you 2 large. You can also do it with the 2.5 inch U@ drives leaving the cover off and using U2 to M2 adapters to get 10,000MB/s sequential reads all day long.