RAID NVMe SSD + SATA SSD?

I know when doing RAID 0, you are always limited to the slowest drive's speed, in this case, the SATA SSD.

What I was thinking, in the future, when the 4TB SSDs become affordable is to get two 1TB PM961 SSDs + two 4TB SSDs and make a small 100 GB partition C: (for the OS) and humongous D: partition (for games + videos)

Would I really feel the performance hit since even the SATA SSDs are fast enough in day to day use.

All I do is surf the web and watch YouTube videos and maybe some gaming here and there.

would this be a good idea @tilleroftheearth @Cloudfire

 

With each SSD effectively being in a RAID0 configuration (internally), I would not attempt to do what you're suggesting (even if the hardware will let you, which I'm sure it won't).

That sounds like the worst of all combinations for me. The fast (sequential) read/write speeds of the NVMe SSD's crippled by the ancient SATAIII standard. And the superior (random) read/write speeds (Q1) of most high end SATAIII drives vs. their NVMe counterparts crippled by the NVMe drives.

For the fastest setup, run each drive separately and separate the O/S, Programs, Temp files (PS's Scratch Disk, for example) and DATA to separate physical drives.

The O/S could be on one of your SSD's (OP'd by 50%).

The Programs and 'resources' folder could be on another SSD (OP'd by 50%).

The Temp/Scratch Disk would be on your fastest SSD available (OP'd by 50% or more).

The WIP (work in progress) Data SSD will hold the files you're working on (OP'd by 50% or more, until you need the capacity).

The RTD (ready to deliver) DATA SSD will hold the files you have finished editing and ready for deliver (OP'd by 50% or more, until you need the capacity).


With (only) four SSD's, the Temp/Scratch Disk could be on the least used drive in the scenarios above, but if you had five SSD's or more, I OP my Scratch Disk drive by 67% for the fastest, sustained performance over time.


Yeah; nothing like how you use your notebook though.

But, that will still make it the fastest possible even for 'light' use (don't forget to add 64GB+ RAM to that...).

 

Thanks Doctor SSD.

So I won't do that then, at the moment, I have my temp/scratch disk as drive letter R: which is a RAM Disk (Primo RAM Disk Pro) set to 4GB as I don't need more than that for the temp drive and it's working great. I download a lot of files/videos and that alleviates the SSD from that extra temp wear/tear.