Raid 0

[MooMoo444]

My 500gb HDD went pop the other day so I've been thinking of my options.

Ideally I dont want to have to go through this again so I want a backup drive. Though I also want to utilise the speed RAID 0 offers, so I was wondering..

Is it possible to set up 2 drives in RAID 0, and have a 3rd drive backing them up in RAID 1? Or would it be easier to just have the 3rd drive standalone and manually save important things twice in case one of the RAID 0's fails.

Also if one drive in RAID 0 goes boom, is there any way to get data from the other one or will it be impossible?

 

[MooMoo444]

Alright then its sounding like 2 500gbs in RAID 0 and a backup one of like 200GB for important media/games etc.

How do you set RAID 0 up?.. I geniuinely have no idea.

Also for RAID 0, do the drives have to be the same size, manufacturer, speed and cache?

edit; If what I originally wanted is possible (RAID 5, as you say) how do you set that up also?

 

[MooMoo444]

Do you get SATA cables when you buy SATA HDDs? My motherboard should have came with 4 of them but because it was a pre-built system I only got two - one for DVD and one for HDD. Would I be in my rights to get them to send me out the rest of the motherboard bits I 'should' have?