running 2 ssd's in raid

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Can I ask... Can you run 2 ssd's in raid as a c: drive just for windows reason being I have just had to reinstall Windows after my ssd refused to boot or repair it's self so all my games have to be reinstalled even though they are kept on a different drive. Thanks.

 

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cheer's guys
Yep they are mostly from steam.. so i just point steam to where the games are installed & it shouldn't have to reinstall the full game just the windows files ?

 

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would you advise using a second ssd in raid as there are a few programmes that i will need to re-install one of which is my old accounts software.
Am I right in thinking if i did this just for the c: drive & windows, if one went down the other would still have the files to run all the programmes.
with a 250gb ssd being so cheap now I'm thinking of it won't cost much to stop this ever happening again.

 

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Basically yes. Raid 1 (mirroring) give you redundancy.

Would I do it on a home pc? Probably not personally. As the cost to reinstall is something I'm happy to accept.

You would likely need to create the raid array first using some disk or bios option, prior to installing windows.

What spec is you're kit?

specs:
asrock z77 extreme4 motherboard,
3570k cpu
2x4gb hyperX fury 1866 ram
gtx1060 6gb
250gb ssd boot drive
& 2 or 3 other hd's for games etc.

 

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specs:
asrock z77 extreme4 motherboard,
3570k cpu
2x4gb hyperX fury 1866 ram
gtx1060 6gb
250gb ssd boot drive
& 2 or 3 other hd's for games etc.

also the price for ssd's seem to be dropping thru the floor at the moment enough so i can take my 250gb drive from my laptop & replace it with something bigger & use that in my desktop.