m.2 drives in RAID 0.

**Ex Finn.** · 11-10-2017, 09:01 PM

I am considering adding a second m.2 drive to my MOBO and running it in Raid 0. Is anyone doing this? Would it increase performance enough to justify the cost, this thing is already pretty fast but speed is life!

**macronaut** · 11-11-2017, 01:32 AM

Disk speed may be better with RAID 0 but I don't think you would get much improvement overall from that setup. However, with two m2 drives you could use RAID 1 for redundancy or use one drive for OS and the other for programs/storage. Does the motherboard have two 2 m2 slots?

**Ex Finn.** · 11-11-2017, 09:55 AM

Originally posted by macronaut

Disk speed may be better with RAID 0 but I don't think you would get much improvement overall from that setup. However, with two m2 drives you could use RAID 1 for redundancy or use one drive for OS and the other for programs/storage. Does the motherboard have two 2 m2 slots?

Yes it does have two slots.
I need to run some benchmarks I guess. The sequential read/write speeds are 3,138 and 1,574 MB/s so it is on par with the spec.

11-10-2017, 09:01 PM	#1
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11-11-2017, 01:32 AM	#2
macronaut Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Feb 2013 Photos: Albums Posts: 281	Disk speed may be better with RAID 0 but I don't think you would get much improvement overall from that setup. However, with two m2 drives you could use RAID 1 for redundancy or use one drive for OS and the other for programs/storage. Does the motherboard have two 2 m2 slots?

11-11-2017, 09:55 AM	#3
Ex Finn. Site Supporter Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Southern Maryland. Espoo. Kouvola. Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 7,975 Original Poster	Originally posted by macronaut Disk speed may be better with RAID 0 but I don't think you would get much improvement overall from that setup. However, with two m2 drives you could use RAID 1 for redundancy or use one drive for OS and the other for programs/storage. Does the motherboard have two 2 m2 slots? Yes it does have two slots. I need to run some benchmarks I guess. The sequential read/write speeds are 3,138 and 1,574 MB/s so it is on par with the spec.