RAID 0 - speed question

psd99 · 6 Aug 2009 at 17:28

Hi guys recently got 2 X Samsung F2 1TB drives
I was thinking of putting them into a RAID0 setup

If each drive is 5400 RPM will the drives when in RAID 0 perform at 10800 RPM?

T4RG4 · 6 Aug 2009 at 18:30

I dont believe the speed of the drives increases, that's not possible. It's just that you'll read from both at the same time, hence the data rate increase.

psd99 · 6 Aug 2009 at 19:30

so does that mean the data transfer will double up?

jbloggs · 6 Aug 2009 at 19:44

so does that mean the data transfer will double up?

With ALL things being ideal you can usually with 2 (two) identical HDDs in RAID0 get almost twice the data transfer rate of that of a single HDD...having a read Here should help.

psd99 · 6 Aug 2009 at 21:21

thanks

jellybeard999 · 6 Aug 2009 at 21:50

Would you mind losing the 2tb of data ?

psd99 · 6 Aug 2009 at 23:50

jellybeard999 said:
Would you mind losing the 2tb of data ?

well I backed up most of the important stuff

well here goes I had to change my BIOS from IDE to SATA
then I got to set up the two X 1TB as a RAID 0 in the intel matrix page

BUT then I couldn't boot into windows because the mode was in SATA
is there a way around this without installing the OS again?