RAID 0?

[EvilAerosolCan]

I've done lots of searching, and I've found many articles saying how RAID works, but I can't find anything actually describing how to set it up. So if anyone could help me out with how to do a RAID 0, or at least point me in the direction of a good how to, it would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Vegito]

you need to tell us what hardware you got, if you dont know, we dont know

 

[EvilAerosolCan]

I'm getting a MSI Neo 2 Platinum, and 2 WD Raptors, and then a third harddrive for storage

 

[EvilAerosolCan]

Bump

 

[SadisticOne]

RAID-0 doesn't have significant benefit in general PC usage, and has the added "benefit" of increasing the risk of volume failure.

The Raptor on its own will be plenty fast.

If you do want to go that route... consider doing overwriting daily Ghost backups to a secondary drive.

 

[EvilAerosolCan]

I know I don't really NEED it, and I won't even have a second Raptor for awhile, I'm more just curious about how to set one up. I see all this stuff on what they do, and how they work, but I haven't been able to find anything on the actual setup of a RAID array. So yeah, it's more or less to satisfy my own curiosity.

 

[chocoruacal]

1. Place hard drives in case.
2. Connect hard drives to RAID connections.
3. Boot computer.
4. Setup array in BIOS/software (depends on application.)
5. Enjoy slimmer wallet and frequent data backup.

 

[EvilAerosolCan]

Thank you

 

[rforum]

SATA Raid on K8N Neo Platinum Install Guide. Here is how I set mine up - it was very easy.

http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=340514

Also get a lot of info on your board here:

http://msihq.designlab.info/

 

[imported_Darthan]

Ok, couple things about your RAID. Number one: you probably don't have to worry about backing up as much as people have been saying because you are using Raptors. RAID 0 doubles your chance of failure for the volume but Western Digital warranties Raptors to be almost twice as reliable as standard 7200rpm drives (they have to be more reliable because WD is trying to break into the enterprise/server/data farm market with them). Secondly, if you are planning to get the second drive later on you are going to have to erase everything on the first drive to create the RAID array. If you have that third hard drive with enough free space for backup then that is pretty quick and easy but it is something to be aware of.

If you are smart about it you can use the RAID 0 for doing things like installing programs and OS but keep all your saved stuff and valuable data on the third drive. Since it is loading the programs and levels in games that will be sped up by the RAID, not loading your saved games and Word documents this should give you both reliability and speed. Of course the real solution is what it always is: you need to back stuff up off of your computer if you are actually going to worry about reliability. A cd can't fail after all unless you do something silly like this: http://www.powerlabs.org/cdexplode.htm. I'm going to assume you aren't going to engage in obvious datacide with your precious backups though.