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question about superbiiz/raid0

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DF-1

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Hey guys, im looking to expand my storage and i came across a deal for a 2TB seagate HDD

http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=HD-ST24TAS&show=p

it has a 10% off HOOT coupon (max off is 10 dollars)

I wanted to know if superbiiz is a good place to shop, and if they take care of you if you have any problems.

also wanted to know if I could do 1 order of the drive with the coupon and another with it too so i can save more? would superbiiz allow it?

im planning on running RAID0 on my motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128493

but i have no experience with RAID at all (to set it up properly, etc)

forgot to mention, I already have a 500GB main drive with win7 64bit, and a 1TB secondary drive. I want to use the 2TB raid0 as a secondary drive aswell. Do I have to reinstall windows? how do i go on about doing this?

any help would be immensely appreciated!
 
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DF-1 said:
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I wanted to know if superbiiz is a good place to shop, and if they take care of you if you have any problems.
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http://www.resellerratings.com/store/eWiz

also wanted to know if I could do 1 order of the drive with the coupon and another with it too so i can save more? would superbiiz allow it?
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No ... http://www.superbiiz.com/coupon.php

You can however buy 2 drives in a single order using that code, but you'll still only receive up to the $10 maximum discount. A single drive equals a $7.50 discount, so you're basically getting $2.50 off the second.

Do I have to reinstall windows?
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No ..

how do i go on about doing this?
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Start by reading the manual for your motherboard ...


but i have no experience with RAID at all (to set it up properly, etc)

any help would be immensely appreciated!
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My advice would be to avoid RAID0 completely then.

Running RAID without any sort of redundancy is just begging for trouble. A single bit of data corruption, and you're going to lose ALL your data on BOTH disks. Not worth it, especially if you really don't know what you're doing ...
 
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young_einstein said:
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My advice would be to avoid RAID0 completely then.

Running RAID without any sort of redundancy is just begging for trouble. A single bit of data corruption, and you're going to lose ALL your data on BOTH disks. Not worth it, especially if you really don't know what you're doing ...
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I really wanted to get the added speed of raid0, im experienced with PC's, just not raid.

I know about the data loss, but am not really worried about it, possibly because i never had any data corruption.

also, is data corruption more frequent with raid0, or does it have the same probability as a single drive?

cant afford an SSD, but maybe i should still stick to one drive... hmm....
 
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DF-1 said:
I know about the data loss, but am not really worried about it, possibly because i never had any data corruption.
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...I know about the chances of getting AIDS from infected needles, but I'm not really worried about it, because I never got infected from them before....

If you truly don't care about the data loss, then by all means go with the RAID0. What is the volume going to be used for? In all honesty, unless you are going to use it as your system/OS volume, it wouldn't be worth it because the speed increase for a single user as just a storage volume would be negligible. You would get much more bang for your buck using the RAID0 as your OS array, and the 1TB and .5TB drives as additional storage drives. Again, to protect your data (especially in an OS array) you should have a backup plan in place, and backup often.
 
mwroobel said:
In all honesty, unless you are going to use it as your system/OS volume, it wouldn't be worth it because the speed increase for a single user as just a storage volume would be negligible. You would get much more bang for your buck using the RAID0 as your OS array, and the 1TB and .5TB drives as additional storage drives.
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You're assuming he's planning to use the RAID0 for storage. There are many tasks where a non-OS RAID0 volume can be very useful.
 
im planning on using the RAID0 for what ive been doing with my 1TB which is for installing some games, capturing fraps videos, and maybe keeping a few game backups.

would probably help out a lot with fraps, and not be ideal for the game backups.

still not sure which route to go...

I forgot to mention this is on a i7 2600k gtx 580 8gb ram system.
 
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