Is RAID-0 on 15K SAS Drives Instead of SSDs for a Gaming PC a Good Idea?

Question

RAID

After reading about how SSDs die six months after the start of use, you think about RAID-0 (high-speed option without data protection) on maximum performance hard drives.

I chose these disks:
regard.ru/catalog/tovar25919.htm

and this controller:
regard.ru/catalog/tovar25300.htm I'm going

to use this as a disk for the OS, Program Files and Steam on a gaming PC. Accordingly, photos-movies-documents will lie on a RAID-1 array of two voluminous disks.

The OS is planned to be Windows Vista Home Basic - there is already a license. You can also buy Windows 7 Home Premium.

The question is, is it a good idea or is there little sense in such monetary investments (almost 15 tyr)?

Answer 1

This is stupidity, just take an ssd and don't worry.

Answer 2

How many operatives do you have?
Just in terms of speeding up the download, perhaps more suitable (for Vista and 7) is more operatives. For example, when playing WoT with 8 gigs of RAM, I watch the loading screen for only a couple of seconds and wait for other players for another 10-15 seconds ... i.e. Windows caches the contents of the screw into the RAM and the toy is already loaded from it. It will turn out both cheaper and more noticeable in terms of the operation of Windows / games / programs.

Answer 3

>> Does it make any other sense?
There is. Show me a 600 GB SSD for 15,000 rubles: evil:
The controller, by the way, is so-so, better than the on-board one, but for raid-0 it doesn’t give anything. It is advisable to take with memory, but this is also a plus of 5-7 thousand minimum, for example regard.ru/catalog/tovar96238.htm

Answer 4

Bad idea. For games, you will primarily need low latency block operations, and not high streaming speed. SLC SSD for 32 giga now costs about 10-11 thousand rubles, there will be many times more sense for your particular application.
About Promise - separately fun. In short, do not take RAID controllers that cost less than $400-500: the controller that you have on the motherboard is most likely no worse.

Answer 5

Win 7 home pro? The first time I've heard.