setting up raid 0

[Liamalxd]

I'm wanting to set up two 500GB hard drives in raid 0, iv'e established what needs to be done, but right now I have one 500GB drive running windows 7, is they're a way to back EVERYTHING UP/COPY IT TO THE NEW DRIVE WITHOUT FORMATTING so I can still use the two drives in raid 0 but have my software all on ??

 

[Liamalxd]

I see.

Thanks for the reply, will I see a performance boost with this setup? my windows experience index gives me 5.9 for my hard disk on its own but iv'e seen people go up to 6.5 with raid 0

 

[Liamalxd]

yeah iv'e heard raid 0 has a 9.5% failure rate, so 1 in 10 chance basically.

should I bother buying another drive or just get a SSD drive and use it on its own?

new hdd = £40
new ssd = £100

but ill probably get 6.5 MAX out of the HDD and about 7.1 out of the SSD