is raid 0 worth it ????

I explained it a bit confusingly sorry, I want to get a 2nd 500 for RAID 0 and temporarily clone my hdd to the backup's new partition so I dont have to reinstall windows on the new RAID 0 drives.

Possible?
 
I've got 2x250GB WD2500AAKS drives in my array and it's definitely faster, I have compared all my loading times (especially in games) to my brothers Samsung 500GB F1 and mine loads them all faster.

As people have said, make sure you have a back, or don't store anything important on the array. A RAID0 array with 2 disks has 2x chance of failing, 3 disks is a 3x chance of failing etc.

I only store Vista/Games/Installs on my array, and I use SyncToy to do nightly backups of stuff like %appdata\ and my game saves. Everything else is (documents, videos etc.) is on a separate disk.

MooMoo444 said:
I explained it a bit confusingly sorry, I want to get a 2nd 500 for RAID 0 and temporarily clone my hdd to the backup's new partition so I dont have to reinstall windows on the new RAID 0 drives.

Possible?
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Possible, yes. But I recommend reinstalling.
 
There is a solution to all these problems [edit: for intel mobos anyways]:

- Critical data on RAID0, you really should only pot windows & apps on RAID0
- Wasted space on RAID0 if you're not going to use it for docs

The solution is Intel Matrix.

I'm running 2x500GB AAKS....

50gb from each drive is RAID0 = 100GB for C:\
450GB from each drive is RAID1 = 450GB for documents

If one drive fails, I'd have lost my windows installation. But the docs are still fine on the working drive. Easy peasy?
 
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