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 ??
setting up raid 0
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I had a noticeable improvement with general windows usage and in gaming.
Its not an "amazing" boost, but its a boost nonetheless.
Tip: Make sure you keep your important data on another drive or backed up on dvds. Drive failure in RAID-0 can mean you lose the lot!
Its not an "amazing" boost, but its a boost nonetheless.
Tip: Make sure you keep your important data on another drive or backed up on dvds. Drive failure in RAID-0 can mean you lose the lot!
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
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
you have to backup all your data and information to other drive. At the moment I have RAID 0 500GB Maxtor and I got 5.9 but 1 TB or 1.5TB samsung got around 5.8 without raid 0. also need to consider if one of the hdd fail then most likely you lose all your information.
If you intend on running RAID 0, I would strongly advise that you have a storage drive especially for storing your most important files. Only ever use RAID 0 for OS and programes, data should be stored on a seperate HDD.
This way, should one of the RAID drives fail, it wouldn't hurt so much knowing that you only need to get another drive and reinstal the OS and programes.
This way, should one of the RAID drives fail, it wouldn't hurt so much knowing that you only need to get another drive and reinstal the OS and programes.
+1, that exactly what I do..
I ran a RAID0 setup for a while with a pair of 74gb raptors, as others have said backing things up is very important, performance was great though the noise of the two drives got on my nerves, eventually the array failed and i went back to a single os drive.
I have partitions for OS/Programs and also for data on my RAID 0, but I do have a dedicated internal drive to hold partition images and external drives with copies of those images, plus conventional file based backups.
Personally I don't perceive RAID 0 as worse than any single drive. Yes I know there's double the risk, but the point is there's always a risk with storage devices and either you have backup or you don't
I have partitions for OS/Programs and also for data on my RAID 0, but I do have a dedicated internal drive to hold partition images and external drives with copies of those images, plus conventional file based backups.
Personally I don't perceive RAID 0 as worse than any single drive. Yes I know there's double the risk, but the point is there's always a risk with storage devices and either you have backup or you don't
The idea of having a RAID 0 configuration is for the increase of performance, not for storage. This is the reason why it is a common practice to have a seperate drive for storage. It makes it a lot easier to recover and restore your system should one of the raid drive fails.
Having said that, it's a good idea that you are saving backup images of your system on a dedicated drive, because RAID 0 is twice as likely to fail compared to a single hard drive.
"either you have backup or you don't
" I agree with you on this one. However, it does make the system cleaner and make the recovering process quicker when the RAID drive fails, you just simply restore the OS and programe files.
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if the system was set to RAID but no raid array was made you should be able to clone the hdd to the RAID 0 array, most of the time this works, if it was set to Sata or AHCI mode high chance it not boot on the cloned RAID 0 setup
windows 7 has an quite an good backup as part as windows as long as thats turned on and points to the single disk backup is not an issue (it also makes an image of the disk as well so you can restore the system to the point when you first made your backup)
if the system was set to RAID but no raid array was made you should be able to clone the hdd to the RAID 0 array, most of the time this works, if it was set to Sata or AHCI mode high chance it not boot on the cloned RAID 0 setup
windows 7 has an quite an good backup as part as windows as long as thats turned on and points to the single disk backup is not an issue (it also makes an image of the disk as well so you can restore the system to the point when you first made your backup)
It does depend on what you store. I have a lot of virtual machines (which I count as storage) and also files related to software development. These really benefit from faster transfer on RAID 0.
I've had a couple of issues with drives in a RAID 0 over the years, and in each case I've simply tested each drive in the array individually to find the faulty one and then replaced accordingly and restored from backup. The only extra work is checking the other drive(s), and restoring a bit more data.