matrix raid and cloning OS?

[adamau5]

Hi all,

I realised i was being silly storing all my photos etc on single 2tb drive (although i do backup from time to time onto usb) so i bought 2x samsung ecogreen f4 2tb.

I managed to install the raid drivers without affecting my vista install (used the reg hack and it works fine, no blue screens etc).

So, i plan to Intel matrix raid, a raid 0 partition for OS and apps (300gb) and the rest as raid 1 (Data, photos, music and films.)

I am rather loathed to reinstall everything, so what are my chances of cloning my current C: (old aak western digital) to the new raid 0 partion. Is is possible, and if so what do people recommend?

Cheers

 

[joxang]

What are you looking for exactly in terms of RAIDing the drives like that? If it's reliability you want you're increasing the chances of you losing data in the long run. RAID 1 is not a way of backing up data, it is a way of ensuring redundancy against drive failure.
However, in this scenario, if one of your drives fails, you'll lose the entire RAID 0 partition which means you won't be able to access your OS, you might lose your partition/RAID settings when you reinstall, and you'll lose the data anyway.
You'd be much better off getting a separate boot drive, and if you insist on using RAID 1 for your media, dedicate the two spinny hard drives for that.