Help with Raid

Beard0000

Beard0000

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HI Everyone
This is my system below!

Gigabyte x58 ud5
6gb Corsair 1600mhx memory
evga gtx 295
i7 920
x2 wd black 640gb

What steps from start to finish do i need to take to get the harddrives in Raid 0, I have manage to do this but my harddrives do not show in the bios anymore, also everytime I boot from start i get the black screen with the ctrl I option. Please help this i driving me insane
 
Hey there,
First things first, note that Raid 0 is known for losing data, so it's up to you if the extra speed will be a benefit over that. You have been warned....:P

First you'll need to sort it out in the BIOS, all motherboards are different so you'll have to look up the procedure if you can't find it on your own. Right, the easiest way to do it is to do it when you install your operating system. It'll give you the option to install RAID drivers or something similar, you'll need a floppy drive for this, or the right drivers on a memory stick. You can find them anywhere. As far as I know that's it. Your operating system will only see one hard drive, and your system will be nice and speedy.

Chris.
 
RAID 0 is not RAID it fails the test on the R :)

The reason its known for losing data (also known as suicide raid) is that when one disk goes all data goes. The MTBF of RAID0 is mtbf of single disk divided by number of disks in RAID

hence the nickname
 
Hi,

Firstly (and sorry to say this) but I wouldn't recommend using such large drives for a boot RAID 0 array. Most here would recommend having 2 small drives for OS & Apps/Games and then in addition to that a large drive for data storage. This is because RAID 0 can be risky - if either of the drives dies you lose everything. However, if you use small drives just for OS & Progs then it's easy to keep a full system image on a larger data drive which isn't in the array and hence isn't as vulnerable. Reloading from an image is by far the best way.

Anyway that said - setting up RAID on that mobo is pretty straightforward. I would recommend you connect both the drives to the blue SATA sockets as they are controlled by the Intel ICH10R controller - which is what you need to press CTRL+I to enter the setup for. If you haven't been through that yet then see my post here for a guide (it's using the same controller so should be the same). If you have already been through that setup then as Minimoke said all you need to do is to set BIOS so that SATA's are running in RAID mode, then select boot device, then save & exit BIOS. On reboot start Windows setup and follow through - afaik if you are using Vista SP1 you don't even need the drivers (altho I could be wrong on that) - if you do need them then prob the best method is to have them downloaded and ready on a USB stick.

Hope it all goes well!:)
 
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