Raid 0 setup?

[toepeper]

I want to setup raid 0 with 2 2tb hard drives. I boot off my SSD. My question is since I wont be booting off the raid disk, do i need to change sata to raid in bois? Or can i just do the raid 0 within windows disk management?

Thanks

 

[john4200]

Why? RAID 0 for 2TB drives does not make a lot of sense. Did you mean RAID 1, mirroring?

 

[toepeper]

For faster read performance. I already have a sever running raid 5. I just needed to know if you can just setup raid through windows without going through my bios on my gaming machine.

 

[john4200]

Well, the reason I say using 2TB disks in RAID 0 does not make sense is that most people consider a RAID 0 of HDDs to be only a temporary or scratch space, since there is a higher chance of data loss due to a HDD failure. And most people do not need 2+ TB of scratch space.

If you described your application, maybe somone could give a suggestion for a better way to meet your requirements than RAID 0 of 2TB HDDs.

But if you are sure you want to do that, then yes, you can use Windows dynamic disks. Or you can use fake RAID on the motherboard if you have something like an ICHR10 chipset. But you would need to change the SATA mode to RAID for fake RAID.

 

[toepeper]

Thanks for your advice.

 

[pjkenned]

Ditto on what john4200 said. Even RAID 5 of more than 4x 2TB drives scares me at this point.

 

[sub.mesa]

I see no problem in using RAID0, as long as:
1) the data is not irreplaceable; if you lose this data then all you would do is shrug; or
2) you got a backup of the data (age of backup is no problem as well)

In those cases, using RAID0 does not change anything about the backup strategy, and the RAID0 volume should be considered a single volume without redundancy, either unimportant data or backed up data. Backing up 4TB is not easy though.