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Is it possible to raid 4 SSDs?

Discussion in 'Gigabyte and Aorus' started by CuriousN, Sep 10, 2014.

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P25 and P35 laptops allow up to 4 SSDs. How many of them can be RAIDed together? All 4?

CuriousN, Sep 10, 2014

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The P25X v2 and P25W v2 Laptops allow up to 3 SSDs (two mSata & one 2.5).
The P35G v2 and P35W v2 laptops allow up to 4 SSDs (two mSata & two 2.5(one being the swappable drive bay)).

Ideally, if you want to use RAID, the drives should be identical and be the same form factor. Since there are 2 different form factors, you may not be able to RAID all of the drives together. But you should be able to RAID the 2 mSata drives as those laptops do support RAID 0. It wouldn't be a good idea to involve the swappable drive in the RAID array unless you never plan on removing it.

Hope this helps.

iBUYPOWER - Jason, Sep 15, 2014

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Unless you are doing RAID for backup you don't need it. It will allow you to copy from your RAID to RAID really fast, but that's about it. RAID0 stems from the time before SSD's and really aren't useful in any situation I can think of unless you like benchmarking for high numbers.

harlekein, Oct 1, 2014

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