Wee raid0 question.

Vegeta · 5 Jul 2006 at 15:46

Hi, I currently have a WD 250GB Sata 2 16mb 2500KS HDD.
I was thinking of getting another and running in raid0.

I've got a couple of question.

1, To run raid 0, both drives have to be identical?
2, This hard drive is full of data and I dont want to back everything up on DVD, if I install both drives on raid0 will i need to wipe this first?
3, If I run raid 0, can I still seperate both the drives in windows, having one as files and the other as the OS?

semi-pro waster · 5 Jul 2006 at 15:56

1. No, but it is better if they both are, can help to prevent issues like going out of sync or loss of space because you only get the size of the smallest drive.
2. Yes because data is striped across both so you will lose whatever you had on the drives.
3. If you use Raid0 then you can still create logical partitions to have as many drives as you want, bit pointless mind compared to having two separate physical drives.

Mr Jones · 5 Jul 2006 at 16:19

semi-pro waster said:
bit pointless mind compared to having two separate physical drives.

But I think the speed increase across the 2 or more partition is beneficial?

t31os · 5 Jul 2006 at 16:35

If you're after performance you'd be better off just buying a raptor, or 2.

Vegeta · 5 Jul 2006 at 16:54

So if I were to somehow backup all my 250gig data (lol what a pain), then get these under raid0 then partition them into two drive, I will see a large speed increase?

I also overclock a lot an experiment, sometimes when I oc my pc might crash, under raid 0 if this happens will I lose all my data? I dont lsoe data when I do this on one hard drive.

Mr Jones · 5 Jul 2006 at 17:59

Vegeta said:
So if I were to somehow backup all my 250gig data (lol what a pain), then get these under raid0 then partition them into two drive, I will see a large speed increase?

It's not a pain when you get it to Raid0+1, so have say 3 drives?

e.g. A pair of 160gb and a seagate 320 for backup