New to raid... kinda lost.

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rxteenager

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Hey there well i finally have the chance to set my raid up. I have Asus P5Q pro mobo which I can setup up my raid on. My question is, i already got my OS installed and I already tried googling the solution but i haven't found an answer to my question.

Even if i'm not installing the os on the raid volume, do I still have to install the raid drivers before I can create the volume so windows can see the raid volume?

Also I have two 620gb WD HDD's, one is an caviar black and the other one is a caviar green. I read articles that as long as the drives are the same size, different models shouldn't have an impact. After all it's just for storage and I don't care that much about performance on my storage drives. My main drive where i got my OS is an SSD.

Also as long as I have the same files on both drives when i setup the raid volume I shouldn't have to worry about losing any data right?
 
First and foremost, backup your data.

Second, did you install the OS while the AHCI or RAID option was enabled in the BIOs?

Third, what RAID level will you be going with?

And no, having the data on both drives will not make sure that the data is safe when setting up the RAID array.
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