Add third raid drive to existing raid 0 setup?

[davidm71]

I was just wondering if anyone know if its possible to add a third drive to an existing raid 0 two drive performance raid setup? Would I have to backup the partition, then add the drive in bios, then create partition and reformat it, and then restore the image back in place?

Or is there an easier way? I have an Abit IN9-32X with two 74gb raptors in raid 0 and a third identicle but newer one in another machine. Thinking of making it a threesome raid setup...

Thanks.

 

[spine]

There's no easier way other than what you've described. Let us know how it goes, I'm considering adding a 3rd drive to my array to increase performance

 

[tzk]

Does anybody have any performance measurements on increasing the # of drives in a raid 0 config?