raid

[latief75]

i'm new in raid configurations..

i have an existing 80gb SATA drive. it is full of data and programs. if i buy a second identical drive to create a RAID 0 array (i think it is called stripping), will i have to format my old drive ? in other words will i loose my data or will it be devied up between the drives?

 

[uzor]

you'll lose all your data. BTW, why do you want to RAID?

 

[latief75]

speed

 

[E4g1e]

speed

Lame excuse there. You'll actually see little to no increase in the practical speed (other than in synthetic benchmarks), and RAID 0 actually halves the MTBF of a drive (when one of the drives in RAID 0 goes bad or dead, the ENTIRE array becomes unusable, making data recovery impossible).