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RAID 0 or 1

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TerryW

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Starting to put together the pieces for a new build. Hard drives will be 1 x 256gb sata3 ssd, and 2 x 1tb sata3 hdd's. The builder asks whether to configure the HDD's in Raid 0 or Raid 1. I'm dizzy trying to understand the difference from the many articles I've googled. One is cited (by the builder) as "for maximum performance", the other "for maximum reliability" (forgot off-hand which is which!!!). I kind of prefer the maximum reliability. This new build, as all my previous computers, will be for Flightsim only....I do no other gaming, nor do I use it for other purposes.....ie., no MS Word or Excel, etc. I propose installing FSX on one of the 1tb disks, the other will be for storage.

Could anyone advise as to the appropriate Raid configuration best for my purpose?....thanks,
All the best,
Terry
 
I've never utilized RAID, my backups are manual and often external. I feel that is the most reliable form of backup.

SSD's are much faster than platter drives, I don't know the difference in access, read, and write times between a SSD vs a pair of SATA 3 platter drives in RAID 0.
 
Personally I'd avoid RAID0, from experience if it goes down and you haven't backup elsewhere, you are screwed. And it's no faster from what I remember of it.
 
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