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RAID help

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big_i182

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ok first off what is RAID and what does it do exactly...

i have 2 hard drives hooked up to the RAID part of the motherboard, the RAID reads both of the hard drives but i can only access the main one. how do i make it so i can access the stuff on the 2nd hard drive as well as run everything off of the main thing.

please put everything in laymans terms so i dont screw this up AGAIN (earlier today i tried and ended up deleting everything)

thanks in advance,

lost n00bie
 
RAID stands for "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives". What it does is make it so you can "spread" data over multiple drives. RAID 0 is not really RAID, it's a "stripe", but it's similar. Your motherboard has a RAID controller...it has a chip that will let you configure 2 (or maybe 4) drives in a RAID array. But you don't have to...you can just use them as individual drives. If you want to configure an array, you need to go into the BIOS for your motherboard and "create" an array...it's different for different mobo's. Once the array is created, it appears to Windows like any other (single) drive...then you have to format it. So 4 100GB drives in a RAID 0 array show up as one 400GB drive (well, close to it).
If not, the drives should work like any other...if you can see one of your drives, you've formatted it. Now you need to format the other.
 
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