Rebuilding 2 HDDs into a RAID 0 array?

Muel · 22 Aug 2010 at 15:52

Hey there,

I have two identical Samsung F3 1tb HDDs, not in raid or anything, just connected to the motherboard as individual drives.

One drive has a 120gb OS partition, and the remaining 880gb for docs, and the other one has just one partition for the full 1tb for music, videos etc.

Is there a way of building an array out of them? I would want to keep the 120gb OS partition, then have the remaining 1.88tb for everything else.

I've got no way of moving my stuff off the HDDs. I can back up my docs and music, but not the video. It's not that much of a problem if I lose it. I just just to build the collection again, but if it's risky I won't bother.

I just thought it might give me a bit of a performance boost for free if it was possible.

Cheers!

EDIT: I am considoring getting an SSD instead/as well at some point, so it needs to be pretty risk free if it is possible for me to bother with it.

AbsenceJam · 22 Aug 2010 at 17:10

You can't do it, you have to start fresh or backup an image then restore.

Not really wise to want to go for RAID 0 when you can't backup everything.

Muel · 22 Aug 2010 at 17:21

Never mind then, cheers.

I can back up everything that matters easily enough, and even my music collection and pictures, it's just video that I can't, because I have about 900gb of it.

Starting fresh isn't an option though unfortunately, I'd need to get/borrow about 1.5tb of storage to move my stuff onto in the mean time.

adamknox · 22 Aug 2010 at 17:43

Muel said:
Never mind then, cheers.

I can back up everything that matters easily enough, and even my music collection and pictures, it's just video that I can't, because I have about 900gb of it.

Starting fresh isn't an option though unfortunately, I'd need to get/borrow about 1.5tb of storage to move my stuff onto in the mean time.

this 900Gb of videos.... how do i put this... are all the videos.... of naked boobies?

or are some of them clean? lol

Muel · 22 Aug 2010 at 18:01

Amazingly, they're all clean! I don't want to get caught with that sort of material, despite being 20 and it's kinda expected of me....

It's all telly, all recorded from the telly by me of course, in a compeltely legal and above board fashion....

I much prefer having telly on the computer, then I can watch through series' at a time and whenever I like.