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a data XP gv2 memory kits are optimized for the latest Intel gaming platforms check the link in the video description for more details now we all know SSDs are pretty much the ultimate in terms of performance on a desktop system for your storage but what many of you probably actually do know is that you can run multiple SSDs together in raid 0 kind of like SLI for SSDs to get even better performance out of them particularly in sequential read and write operations now it doesn't learn much like SLI it doesn't necessarily scale perfectly it's like if you run 16 SSDs in a system will it performs 16 times better the answer is no but without getting into expensive fancy you hardware RAID cards or other exotic solutions we wanted to find out where exactly is the limit in scaling for SSDs running on a regular Intel desktop PC we chose this platform because it has 6 SATA 3 6 gigabit per second ports running off of the Intel chipset the last generation z77 only had 2 so it was really hard to do this kind of an investigative thing so we decided to run for different configurations by the way big thanks to a data for providing these SX 900 Sam force based SSDs for our test we ran single drive to drive three drive and four drive I lost the last box I have no idea where it is so don't worry trust me we definitely ran four drives they're all there and we wanted to see where the differences in performance really start well disappearing so to speak so we ran three different benchmarks we ran PC mark Vantage so we ran the storage subsystem test and what you'll see here is that it becomes quite clear very quickly that just because you double the theoretical performance of one aspect of your system doesn't mean that you're necessarily going to double the real-world performance because PC mark is more of a real-world oriented test we also see that that small performance difference evinced continues to diminish as we have more and more drives giving us that sort of all it adheres to the law of diminishing returns just like you'd see with adding more channels to memory operation or adding more graphics cards to a lie or crossfire config now when we move on to a synthetic test we ran both reads and writes peds using the black magic disk speed test which we found to be quite repeatable and quite realistic in terms of theoretical maximums you'll see that once again we see a very clear doubling of performance going from a single drive to a two drive configuration but once we get into these multi drive configs three drives still scales extremely well but adding a fourth drive really doesn't do a whole lot for even theoretical performance so while you'll still get extra capacity when you run for 256 gig SSDs in raid 0 you get effectively one terabyte of capacity you won't necessarily continue to get a speed improvement and you should also be aware that every time you add another SSD you are adding to the points of failure that exist in your system and increasing the risk that just by a single drive failing you will lose all of your data if you aren't doing very regular backups so thank you for checking out this raid zero performance investigation with the a day 2 SX 900 SSDs don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos give the video a like if you liked it give a dislike if you disliked it or you're having a bad day or you didn't like the serial your mum bought from the grocery store and you just wish you bought something else and leave a comment let me know your favorite kind of cereal