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Hardware Raid 0 vs Windows Dynamic Disk Striping

Dazed and Confused

Dazed and Confused

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System Name Frankenstein
Processor i5 4670k oc 4.0
Motherboard MSI Z87 GD65 Gaming
Cooling Coolermaster Hyper212 Evo
Memory 2x GSkill Ares DDR3 1600 8gb 9-9-9-24 CL9
Video Card(s) Dell Alienware GTX 1080 ti(MSI Aero rebrand)
Storage Samsung 840 Pro SSD 512 gb 2x Seagate Constellation es.3 2 tb 7200 rpm sataIII in raid 0
Display(s) TCL 405 55" 4k HDR TV
Case Generic Black Rosewill Mid Tower ATX
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Power Supply Rosewill Green Series 630 watt 24 amp 12v single rail 80+ Bronze
Mouse Steele Series Sensei Raw wired
Keyboard Generic Logitech KB120 wired
Software Lots!
Benchmark Scores Not as good as a newer pc but hey it runs everything 4k ultra so yay!
For a gamer just wanting faster access from his high capacity hdd is there any benefit to using hardware raid 0 over dynamic disk striping? Using two seagate constellation es3 2 tb.

Thanks! :toast:
 
The overall performance is close in the 2 cases, but I'd rather have a controller do my RAID stripping. I only use the windows version when no controller with RAID support is available. I've been using RAID0's since the lasrgest HDDs were 250GB and had no problem ever, but I did choose specific models for this, not just any drive.

Putting 2 ES2s in RAID0 of any kind is a little risky, but if your HDDs already passed a few months without any reallocated sector counts, you should be fine on the long term.
 
RAID0 doesn't improve access times (determined by RPM), it only increases effective bandwidth.
 
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