Seting up RAID 0

[Coltonimusprime]

After days of looking around and researching, I have decided that an SSD would cost way too much for me at this point, and I've decided to go with a RAID 0 setup. First question, is it true that a WD 160GB Caviar Blue is just as fast as an older WD 74GB Raptor? If yes, than is it a good idea to use two of those caviar blues for my raid setup? I have a caviar black 1TB for all of my storage. I want to install windows 7 on the RAID 0 and I was wondering what exactly do I need to do that, and how exactly do I do it? Thanks in advance!

 

[Dangman]

1) No, not true at all.
2) RTFM for your motherboard.

 

[jay2472000]

Ok, first off, lets establish what raid 0 is. You realize its a stripe and if one HD dies or otherwise stops working you lost it all ?? Ok, cool. Second, does youre Mobo do raid setups? Like Danny said, read the manual and see what options you have available. Third, I think the drives you are mistaking with the 160g Caviar Blues are actually the 640 gig WD drives. Theres a blue, a black and one other, ( I forget) . I would personally do 2 Blacks in a stripe, 1tb for storage, the rest for OS , and use that other 1 Tb drive for backups of the raid stripe storage. You also have to remember I run WHS so I am not the least bit concerned with a C:\ drive backup as I can very easily restore it from my WHS box, but you might want to look into other options for backing up, cloning, imaging, etc the C drive. Good luck.