Raid 0 help

joedeath332 · 19 Nov 2009 at 10:24

It had been a while since i last set up a raid for my o/s ( it was with xp )
I have now ventured into windows 7 which is currently installed on a single 74 gig raptor.
Due to the small size of the drive and the age of it i deceided to purchase 2 new drives , with the idea of creating a raid 0 to put my windows 7 instalation onto.
i ordered and have in my possesion 2 x https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-206-SE

I have installed them into the pc and they are showing up ok in device manager as "unallocated"
how do i create the raid ,,and will i have to do a new instalation ,, or can i use the likes of acronis to make an image of my existing "C" drive ,, and then use it to transfer the image to the new raid drives.
Or do i need to do a new install to make the raid

Thanks in advance

joedeath332 · 19 Nov 2009 at 11:02

miniyazz said:
Just so you know, they will feel slower than your single Raptor because they have longer seek times.

If that is true then ill prob just keep them as extended drives and install all programs etc to them as the OS takes up like half of the raptor alone

joedeath332 · 19 Nov 2009 at 11:31

Guest2 said:
Its better to keep OS with programs really. Install games and media on the 500gb drives

This was posted by me,,for some reason posted it as a guest

I must say i am supprised that a HD 5 years old is still faster than a modern day sata II drive

joedeath332 · 19 Nov 2009 at 16:00

Ok i am deff gonna keep windows 7 and my main instalation of WOW on my 74gig raptor,, that leaves me 25G , so guess ill have to be sure and install all apps etc on one of the 500gb drives

with the slower access times