raid ssd's

[buzzlightweight]

i have an intel 40 gb ssd which is getting close to its limits on space, so i am going to be buying another one and putting it into raid 0,

i have just googled how to do it and was wondering if it is just a case of configureing the bios? or do i need to do anything else?

thanks

 

[buzzlightweight]

To actually answer your question...it depends (see below)

Don't want to teach you to suck eggs but for the sake of those who've posted incorrect statements above: Put them in RAID0 will give you double the space and a performance boost (the writes and reads are split over both drives simultaneously so in theory should both be twice as fast). But if one fails you'll loose everything.

As to whether you just configure them from the BIOS, well sometimes that'll work and sometimes it wont. It depends on the OS and the motherboard as to whether it will boot without having to add different drivers.

My old Nvidia based board didn't seem to care what arrangements you had regarding single drives and drives in raid, you set it in the bios and it would boot, even migrating installs from single drives to RAID It just worked.

However my newer X58 board has different drivers for the chipset depending on how you configure the storage controller in the BIOS (IDE/ACHI/RAID). You can't move an install from one to another without installing different drivers beforehand, or better yet doing a clean install.

thank you for your explanation, as to your concerns of potential data loss im covered by 4 2tb hdds, i will only use the ssd's for os and programs which i have all disc's and data backed up i will be doing a clean install on a new Gigabyte P67A-UD7 Intel P67 Chipset (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge).