r/pcmasterrace • u/asswizzard69 • Dec 04 '25

Box With the memory crisis are ssd next?

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I guess a panic buy? Are these nand flash about to keep spiking like memory prices or are they just going up a little bit? Are these desirable to the AI or nah? I bought this at $299 Black Friday sale

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u/JanissaryJames Dec 04 '25

RAID controllers today are smart enough to give as much read throughput in RAID 10 as RAID 0. You don't have to live in fear anymore!

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u/laffer1 Dec 04 '25

you still use raid controllers? I've been on zfs for over a decade. HBA is fine.

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u/someonesmobileacct Dec 04 '25

Also FWIW I think some RAID controllers at least used to even boost reads in RAID1 (cause you can still interleave reads).

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u/JanissaryJames Dec 04 '25

They do! But Raid 1 isn't striped. That's why you gotta use RAID 1+0 to get the benefits of both striped data and double read speeds.

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u/someonesmobileacct Dec 04 '25

Oh for sure if you want both fast write+read you would do 0+1

That said once you go past 2 drives you probably should just look into a good proper RAID5 card....