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Setting up Raid 0

AStateOfTrance
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Hey guys, I have a 1TB Crucial SSD that I'd like to set up with Raid 0. I've just watched Linus's tutorial on RAID but he said creating a raid volume will wipe everything on the drive. So is it kind of too late for me to set up RAID 0? Or is there a way to set it up without losing data? If there's no way around it, is it WORTH losing all data and starting from scratch for RAID 0?

 

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"worth" it is up to you. Will you see an increase in speed, honestly no. You will have twice the usable space on the "single" drive volume in windows, but speed you will never notice a change at all. 

 

So, worth is up to you. You can always backup your data to another harddrive, set up RAID then copy it back. But if you have a 1 TB SSD, do you really need 2 TB of SSD space...? If you are asking if RAID 0 is right for you, odds are you don't... 

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As far as I know, you will have to delete the existing array and rebuild it from scratch. You usually cannot expand existing RAID 0 arrays.

 

If you do go the RAID route, I would heavily recommend getting a large hard drive to be a backup drive for when your array dies.

 

You probably won't see much of a increase in speed (I think you need more drives than two in RAID 0 to see larger boosts) considering how fast a single SSD drive is on its own.

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This is an example of a RAID 0 with two SSD drives. Sadly, I will be breaking up my RAID 0 very soon. I will use a single 128GB boot drive and eventually recreate a 240-256GB SSD RAID 0. I have a 240GB SSD in the mail and will be using a dual drive single drive format for OS and gaming SSD. The 240GB is for the game files. My other RAID 0 is my big backup 2TB RAID 0.

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Hey guys, I have a 1TB Crucial SSD that I'd like to set up with Raid 0. I've just watched Linus's tutorial on RAID but he said creating a raid volume will wipe everything on the drive. So is it kind of too late for me to set up RAID 0? Or is there a way to set it up without losing data? If there's no way around it, is it WORTH losing all data and starting from scratch for RAID 0?

 

This is the video I was watching

 

 

Hey AStateOfOtrance,
 
Setting up a RAID array formats all drives that are in the array thus losing all data on it. If you do decide to go with the RAID0 option, you should back up all data that you want to keep. If the 1TB drive happens to be your boot drive, you can create a system image of the boot partition, save it on an external drive and then restore it on the already set up RAID array. This way you should keep everything including your OS, registry, installed applications and all files on your boot partition (C drive). Here's a link on how to do that: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/system-restore
 
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