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Raid 0 Question.

Nickfurious
By Nickfurious
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Hi guys,

I'm planning to buy an SSD and I was just wondering what will happen if I decide to convert it later to Raid 0 with another SSD. Will I lose all the files? I mean will it act as a new SSD and I would need to reinstall my OS and everything?

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wrong sub-forum, this should be under "storage"

 

but yes, for raid 0 to work, both drives need to be wiped clean, cause half of each file in on each drive.

 

EDIT: 2 SSDs in raid 0 show up as one drive btw

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Yes, because two drives in Raid 0 act as one so the file image is stored over both drives, but you can do like a Backup to Cloud or something and retrieve it all later 

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if you e.g. have 2x250GB ssds, I would buy a HDD with at least 250GB and do a clone of the raid array once a week

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