Ivybirds is not wrong in this case. RAID 0 (disk striping) is a technology based entirely upon what Ivybirds was saying. The general idea is that multiple drives working in parallel to retrieve the data through their own bus, is faster than one drive retrieving data serially. Thus faster reads and writes.uOpt wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 8:24 pm I think we agree to disagree.
I would urge you to review the DRM systems of the software and libraries you use. With a dead boot drive and a full reinstall you might lose quite a bit and cause a wait period until you can reach the original vendors. I also don't quite follow why backing up multiple drives is supposed to be easier than a single one.
However, it is also dependent upon what you plan to do with it. If you are only going to be reading or writing one track of audio at a time, all of the extra technology is moot. If you are going to need to retrieve lots of data and write many tracks at the same time, a single hard drive may not be sufficient unless it has fast enough reading and writing capabilities.
Truth of the matter is, that a lot of work used to be able to be done on old spinner hard drives as long as they had an RPM of at least 7200. Most of the modern SATA SSDs go way beyond the speed of what a spinner hard drive at 7200 RPM can do. The M.2 NVME SSDs are much faster than the SATA SSDs. The average user is unlikely to notice the difference between a system using a single drive, and a system using multiple drives. But, if it ever came down to a very heavy workload, the computer with a single drive has a much lower chance of managing the work load than the computer with multiple drives.
The easiest way to check and see if your motherboard will manage multiple drives properly, is to look for a motherboard that supports RAID. A motherboard that properly supports RAID and has multiple M.2 slots for hard drives will more than likely work for what is needed.
