What is better for games, raid0 from 2 hdd or still take ssd?

Question

Hard disks

Hello, I have a gaming computer, at the moment there is one SSD drive for 480, the place is over and there is a choice, buy another SSD for 480 or put 2 HDDs in raid0 for this money? Interested in performance in games, will HDDs lose much to SDDs? Thank you in advance.

Motherboard msi z370 sli plus
Processor intel i7 8700k

Answer 1

For games in terms of read speed, SSD
HDD in Raid0 is better for writing / reading large files

Answer 2

SSD only for games!

Answer 3

Today's SSDs and HDDs are cheap, fast as hell, and have a huge capacity! Except you will always get a maximum of two of these properties. Or maybe even one.
My advice: buy a m.2 NVMe SSD for the system (only 250 GB is possible), preferably Samsung EVO, they are indestructible. Judging by the tests, they can withstand the recording of 6 petabytes of information, which is 40 times higher than the declared resource. And the speed will not be 500 Mb / s, but 3500. Also buy a decent amount of HDD, at least 4 terabytes. What are your 480 gigs? It's about nothing, my music takes up more space. And if the RAM is less than 16 GB, increase to 16. Better fast, at 4000 MHz. If there is not enough RAM, then a fast drive will not help.

Answer 4

Of course ssd and there is a performance difference hundreds of times between them

Answer 5

Funny answers =) Without a single figure, see for yourself.
Regardless of the interface on the mat. board (SATA2(II) or SATA3(III)) the speed of the SSD will be higher than one HDD, because An HDD will rarely be able to reach data transfer rates above 300 MB / s, and an SSD can easily hit 375 MB / s SATA2 (II). The SATA3(III) SSD will also hit the threshold of 750 MB / s and the speed will be > 2 times higher than a single HDD.
The only argument for using 2 HDDs in RAID0 (x2 read/write speed (~600 MB/s) may be the SATA2(II) interface on the motherboard.