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Raid question

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DarkCyber

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I just bought an AMD 64 bit 3200+ with an Abit KV8-Max3 motherboard. Problem is I don't own any sata hd's :( ...so I purchased a pci raid card and I'm wanting to raid my western digital 200 & 160 gig hd's using raid 1 with striping to make one large drive.

Now the real question...I have data on both of these drives...is there anyway to set this raid up without loosing the data or my I backup everything :eek: Alot of backing up to do.

Thanks!
DarkCyber
 
you mean RAID 0 with striping
RAID 1 is mirroring

and no, you need to back it all up

but I really dont see the benefit of RAIDing those 2 drives
too begin with youll loose 40GB of space
then youll place all the data into jepoardy in the RAID0 in the event of one drive failing its all gone (so twice the potential over if they where single HDD + any controller error)


and finally your not going to gain much
a few aps might have better access, games might load faster, but the vast majority of that data simply doesnt need that performance, in addition since its ROMB (RAID on Motherboard) the CPU is impacted to handle it, the difference between ROMB and Software RAID being largely semantics
 
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