Samsung 860 EVO 250GB x4 RAID 0
WHY WE CHOSE IT
"Four drives that were already on the shelf, striped into one volume with one drive letter and the capacity added together. RAID 0 keeps no parity, so the day any one of the four fails, all four are gone. Game installs live here. Nothing irreplaceable does."
Four 250GB SATA drives striped into one 1TB volume. SATA III caps each drive near 550 MB/s read, so four of them have a theoretical ceiling around 2,200 MB/s and a real figure under it. The single 970 EVO Plus in this machine is faster on its own than the whole array.
Technical Specifications
| Configuration | RAID 0 (Stripe) |
| Drives | 4x Samsung 860 EVO 250GB |
| Interface | SATA III, 6 Gb/s, on the board's SATA ports |
| Total Capacity | 1TB nominal, about 931 GiB as Windows counts it |
| Sequential Read, per drive | Up to 550 MB/s |
| Sequential Write, per drive | Up to 520 MB/s, falling to 300 MB/s on sustained writes past TurboWrite |
| Controller / NAND | Samsung MJX, 64-layer 3D V-NAND TLC |
| Redundancy | None (0) |
Optimization Notes
When installing the Samsung 860 EVO 250GB x4 RAID 0, ensure you follow our specific configuration guide. Standard installation methods often result in suboptimal performance or higher latency.
Component Procurement & Testing FAQs
Crucial advice on buying used enthusiast PC hardware, silicon binning, and thermal maintenance.
Silicon degradation manifests as instability at stock or mild voltages. Test the CPU by running OCCT CPU / Linpack at stock voltage; if errors occur within 10 minutes, the silicon has experienced degradation.
For used graphics cards (especially OEM or previously mined units), check VRAM junction temperatures and inspect HWInfo64 for "PCIe Bus Errors" (WHEA 17/19).
Replacing dried thermal pads and applying PTM7950 to the GPU core restores used hardware to factory thermal performance.
Always check WHEA errors in HWInfo64 and verify voltage stability on second-hand hardware.