Can I clone a single HD OS to Raid HD without reinstalling windows.

Clairvoyant · 6 Apr 2009 at 10:16

Hi all
I currently have a single 80 gig sata 1 HD with my OS on (I cant really afford SDDs).

So its be advised that I get a pair of these http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-130-WD

Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache. And Raid them (faster than what I have).

Now can I plug these drives in and set them in the bios as a raid. Then when in windows clone my current OS HD to the new array.

Is this possible.

Clairvoyant · 7 Apr 2009 at 13:28

Would a pair of these Western Digital 250GB Raid Edition III SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache be better than the Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache.

Besides they are 250 instead of 320

Clairvoyant · 8 Apr 2009 at 21:15

All up and runnign with the use of Acronis True Image.

just used HD tune to test the new raid, and the read benchmark min,max and avg are all 5 times better than before.

Clairvoyant · 8 Apr 2009 at 22:23

I just used the clone feature.

Clairvoyant · 13 Apr 2009 at 21:02

my old drive was a single 80gig Sata 1 drive on its own. This is a raid0 2 drive set up now.

And yes about 5 times faster.

Clairvoyant · 14 Apr 2009 at 14:45

I wish I kept the screen shots.

using HD Tune Pro on a read benchmark.
min 100mb
max 217
avg 174

on my old HDD was something like

min 22
max 55
avg Cant remember

CPU was less on the old HDD.

But yeah thats the rough figures.