Quote Originally Posted by daviddoran View Post
I am in the midst of a Pre-Legion PC upgrade.

Here's my current system

Intel i7 4790k
Gigabyte Z97 MX Gaming 5
16GB G.Skill DDR3
Gigabyte GTX 970
2x 250GB Samsung 840 EVO
40" 4k monitor

Switching to

Intel i7 6800k
ASRock FATAL1TY X99m killer/3.1
32gb Kingston Hyperx Fury DDR4
ASUS Strix GTX 1080
?? SSD
40" 4k monitor

I have a bunch of random SSDs lying around, so I got plenty of options. First is just to move over my existing SSDs and call it a day.

I'm nervous to keep using RAID0. Haven't been burned yet, but I feel like it's a ticking timebomb. I am considering a RAID 10 with 2 more 250gb EVOs, which gives me the same capacity, roughly the same write speeds, but probably faster read speeds.

Should I just get 4 fresh drives ($$$$) or just get 2 and add to what I got? I also have a 500GB 850 EVO, so I could just get another of those and RAID 1, but I've heard about IO stutter with multiple instances of wow reading off a single SSD (which may be mitigated by the RAID 1, who knows?)


EDIT: I should note that my current system works fine for 5 boxing but am going to try about 8 boxing, with pretty high settings, I just want a bit more headroom for other stuff, (Youtube stutters when playing for instance)
8-boxing won't really stress the drives any more than 5-boxing, with the possible exception of hearthing/porting to a major cap city that has a ton of people in it.

I was running 2x 840 Pros in RAID 0 and getting about 1GB sequential read/write. It was very easy to set up. I'm now on 2x 950 Pro PCI-E M.2 drives in RAID 0 (with special BIOS support) and while it works, there are some early-adopter quirks that make installing/upgrading OS (e.g. from Win7 legacy to Win10 UEFI) a pain in the ass. Granted, having ~2.5GB read speeds makes booting/loading games stupid fast, I'm about burned out enough on OS reinstalls that I'd tell my old self to just pick up two 850 EVO drives and put them in RAID 10 with the 840 Pros and call it a day, assuming your board supports it.