2 × 22 TB in RAID 0

Usable space and the risk of striping for 2 drives of 22 TB each.

2 × 22 TB drives in RAID 0 give 44 TB of usable space, which Windows shows as 40 TB. All of it is usable, and none of it is protected. If any one of the drives fails, everything on the array is lost.
TB

Size printed on the drive label. Different sizes? The array uses the smallest one for every drive.

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MB/s

Typical hard drive: 100–200 MB/s with no other load. SSD: 400 MB/s or more.

From the drive datasheet. It is a worst-case spec, so real drives usually do better.

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44TB usable

Array healthy
Your data Parity or mirror copy Failed drive Click a drive to make it fail.
Drawing2 × 22 TB in RAID 0
Raw44 TB
Efficiency100%

Drives that can fail

Rebuild of one drive

Read error during rebuild

Checks for this setup

The same drives in every RAID level

2 drives of 22 TB each.

LevelUsableEfficiencyDrives that can failRebuildRead error in rebuild
44 TB
100%
None
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22 TB
50%
Any 1
40 h
16%
Needs at least 3 drives
Needs at least 4 drives
Needs at least 4 drives
Needs at least 6 drives
Needs at least 8 drives

2 × 22 TB in RAID 0: the numbers

Usable space44 TB (40 TB in Windows)
Raw space44 TB
Used for protectionNothing
Efficiency100%
Drives that can failNone

Rebuild

RAID 0 cannot rebuild. A failed drive means restoring all 44 TB from a backup. With a typical 1.5% annual failure rate per drive, the chance that one of the 2 drives fails within a year is 3%, and within three years 8.7%.

Our take

Use this only for data you can copy or download again: scratch space, caches, a game library. With two drives, RAID 1 gives 22 TB and survives a failed drive.

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Usable space in TB. Pick a cell for the full numbers.
Drives2 TB4 TB6 TB8 TB10 TB12 TB14 TB16 TB18 TB20 TB22 TB24 TB
2 drives4812162024283236404448
3 drives61218243036424854606672
4 drives81624324048566472808896