HDD RAID Configurations

[Stealer]

Lo, all, never bothered with raids before (used to partition in from the days of dos, or dblspace ), just bought seperate physical drives for my stuff categories (deliciously disorganized, yet I know where everything is).
Is it worth bothering with raids, purely looking at the speed factor increases? I was asking because I've got the parts for my new rig; pretty much everything except the case, gpu and hdds, I've replaced, just waiting for a day off before install, although I've already put the cpu and fan on (just waiting in the cupboard.
Ryzen 5 5600x
16 gig corsair ddr4 3600
Asus prime x570-p mobo
Corsair 850 or 750 f/m

Noticed the gen3/4 1 tb m2 are down to £80, I was like hmmm... 3.6 gbps thereotical speed before a raid.

Gonna buy 2x 1tb m2 drives and raid them rather than leave them unconfigured, noticed a lot of difference with load times on the latest games running an m2/ssd over a standard sata drive.

Is it worth doing or should I just get the 1 drive, current is a gen1 with <1 at present + old mobo and cpu?

[Piglet]

I've always had a raid mirror of my data drive because I'm too lazy to back anything up...

[Stealer]

I've always had a raid mirror of my data drive because I'm too lazy to back anything up...

My backup is a literal notepad  Old School ftw! 

[holyspam]

Lo, all, never bothered with raids before (used to partition in from the days of dos, or dblspace ), just bought seperate physical drives for my stuff categories (deliciously disorganized, yet I know where everything is).
Is it worth bothering with raids, purely looking at the speed factor increases? I was asking because I've got the parts for my new rig; pretty much everything except the case, gpu and hdds, I've replaced, just waiting for a day off before install, although I've already put the cpu and fan on (just waiting in the cupboard.
Ryzen 5 5600x
16 gig corsair ddr4 3600
Asus prime x570-p mobo
Corsair 850 or 750 f/m

Noticed the gen3/4 1 tb m2 are down to £80, I was like hmmm... 3.6 gbps thereotical speed before a raid.

Gonna buy 2x 1tb m2 drives and raid them rather than leave them unconfigured, noticed a lot of difference with load times on the latest games running an m2/ssd over a standard sata drive.

Is it worth doing or should I just get the 1 drive, current is a gen1 with <1 at present + old mobo and cpu?

Fyi, modern nvme gen 4 reaches 4GB/s...per disk
No need for any raid, just complicates things, use the extra capacity as storage if you get a 2nd disk

[Piglet]

What do you do if one of the disks dies? *cough* your bitcoins? *cough*

I think a mirrored raid setup is a bit of a no-brainer.

[kops]

I'd like to think that anyone holding crypto has their private key written down somewhere safe!

[Piglet]

You'd think so! Don't mention that to Holyspam though....

[Stealer]

What do you do if one of the disks dies? *cough* your bitcoins? *cough*

I think a mirrored raid setup is a bit of a no-brainer.

I've not (touchwood) had any drives die on me, other than when I fried my PC by spraying a can of beer into it whilst it was on (was back when I had some mental issues many years ago)  . Luckily there isn't really anything of importance on there, plus I have an external USB drive for backups.

Wish I'd kept the crypto I initially bought many years ago, would've made a lot of dosh if I'd had the sense 

[hagis]

I've always had a raid mirror of my data drive because I'm too lazy to back anything up...

Ah,,.. noooo,. lines for you,. 100x "raid is not backup" pigs you should know better!

[Piglet]

I have a copy of all the UT stuff on an old xeon server...it's maybe not as up to date as it could be though...

[Stealer]

Finally got it running yesterday, can't say I notice any difference; haven't got the hdds yet, should wait till Thursday for pay day really...

Edit (a few days later). Got 2x1tb gen3 m2 drives for 75 each. Hopefully get round to installing them on Wednesday during my day off. I probably wouldn't utilise the speed boost of a raid, so went for one in each PC (mine/missus).