Those Pesky Raid 0 Drives

[chefwong]

Consumer good backup practice aside......was looking for stuff and noticed the 2TB SSD externals . Took a deeper dig and a WAG is that it's two 1TB on a Raid O. Been there...eon's ago with Lacie drives. Controller broke, all was done.

Am I crazy or the risks on raid 0 versus just a single drive should be pretty much common sense to any consumer, and single drive IMO is going to be less riskier than a Raid 0 setup *even though the external hard drive is not touted as such , but just marketed as 2TB*

 

[jdb8167]

There are plenty of 2TB NVME modules. You could buy a case and a 2 TB NVME SSD and then you know what you are getting.

 

[velocityg4]

For a boot or data drive. I see no issue with RAID 0. Since you should have a proper backup. If it fails. It doesn't matter you just restore from the backup. As the whole reason for RAID 0 is speed. You trade reliability for speed.

For a backup drive. It's idiotic. The whole point of a backup is to have a reliable source to restore data from.

As for an external RAID 0 SSD. I'd have a lot of questions about the reliability and speed of the controller. They'd have use some real junk to make dual connections and a RAID controller with two drives cheaper than a single larger drive. Also are the SSD themselves any good or just the cheapest trash from the lowest bidder they could get?

Get a quality name brand external. From a company which normally makes good drives. Like a Samsung T7 or Samsung X5. Preferably one with a teardown online. So, you know the exact SSD you're getting.

Otherwise do it yourself. Get a USB 3.1 Gen 2 or Thunderbolt 3 NVMe enclosure. Then get a nice SSD to put in it. Such as a Samsung 970 Evo or HP EX950.

If this is just a backup. Consider going cheaper with a nice SATA model put in a USB enclosure. Such as a Samsung 870 Evo.

 

[jav6454]

Consumer good backup practice aside......was looking for stuff and noticed the 2TB SSD externals . Took a deeper dig and a WAG is that it's two 1TB on a Raid O. Been there...eon's ago with Lacie drives. Controller broke, all was done.

Am I crazy or the risks on raid 0 versus just a single drive should be pretty much common sense to any consumer, and single drive IMO is going to be less riskier than a Raid 0 setup *even though the external hard drive is not touted as such , but just marketed as 2TB*

Get two 2TB disks in RAID 1.