A Year With NVMe RAID 0 in a Real World Setup

Test Methodology & Hardware

I have been using this system on a daily basis as my main PC and I’ve used it as I would do that at any other time. I have been doing my editorial work, benchmarked some external products, and I have gamed. While I do store most my data off the system and on a centrally located network machine, I have had quite a bit of data going through the PC. There are all the games in Steam, Origin, and Uplay that I have installed and deleted in order to install others and there have also been a lot of photos that have been downloaded, edited, uploaded, and deleted again. Overall, a busy system on most days.

Test system:

• Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7-EU
• Intel Core i5-6600K
• EVGA GTX 980 SC ACX 2.0
• Kingston Fury DDR4 2400MHz 32GB
• Samsung SM951 NVMe 256GB in RAID 0
• be quiet! Dark Power Pro 10 850W
• Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate
• Thermaltake Core P5

Drive Setup

• 2x Samsung SM951 PCIe NVMe M.2 2280 256GB
• Intel RST RAID 0 setup