neilhodgkinson

No it's speed I was looking for with these two HDDs but I thought that in both RAID 0 and 1 you only got half the capacity or is that only for RAID 1?

I have just finished, after many trials and difficulty's, building my first PC. The last two HDD's i attached were 3TB. I put them both onto 2 x 6Gb/s Marvell controller SATA ports on my Asus P9X79 WS board. I went into the Marvell utility and set the two drives in RAID 0. I then looked on my desk top in Windows 8.1 but couldn't find the RAID so I did a bit of research and found that I needed to allocate them letters. I went into Disk management found the drive, seen as a single drive, and tried to right click and allocate a letter but there was no option. The only option to do anything was to make a simple volume. I looked on line again and this seemed to be the way so I formatted and created to simple volume, allocated a letter and felt very pleased with my self until I noticed that it was reading 6GB volume for a RAID0 of 2 x 3TB HDDs. I then went back into the Marvell utility to do a sanity check and see if I'd made something other than what I thought but in the Utility it read RAID0 64K stripe and strangle 6TB for size here also. I'm totally new to PC's and am sure I'm just looking at it wrong or something. I thought I would have 3TB's of space, is it possible a 6TB RAID0 form 2 x 3TB HDDs? What's going on? Am I even posting this in the right place? Can anyone help?

Ok so it was all a bit of a mess in the end and I had to reinstall and start again but thanks fir the help guy's, N.

I have the SSD as the boot drive in Bios, I tried the second choice and it went into a repair mode, told me it was unfixable and shut down so I think it;s the HDD I installed and then wiped. I couldn't seem to get it to format the SSD on installation first time around but maybe that was some mistake of mine, I'm new to this. I could just lower the time it takes to boot onto the first choice to 0 but I hate having things wrong that I don;t understand and just covering them up. Especially on a brand new build. I also went into BIOS set my 2 drives on the INtel controller to RAID then went into intel Rapid Storage Technology option ROM utility and made a RAID 0, it all seemed to go fine but I cant see it anywhere on the PC when I boot up? Is it hidden away somewhere? I'm still finding my way around the windows interface but it dose't seem to show up anywhere.

I had a my CD drive die on me during a windows 8.1 clean install onto a newly built PC, then Windows wouldn't install onto the SSD so I installed onto a HDD and booted up into Windows, formatted the SSD. I then installed Windows 8.1 on the SSD and booted up from the SSD and formatted the HDD that I had previously had Windows on. When I start up the PC now it seems to see 2 copy's of Windows and asks which one I should boot from? Is there any way to correct this?

I understand that the speed of a HDD dose not depend on the connection but on how fast it can read and write but if it's in a RAID0 those speeds can increase. If a 3Gb/s SATA is about 350MB/s then if I put 4 x HDD's in RAID0 on 4 x 3Gb/s SATAs at 150 each, so 300 for 2 so maybe 400-500MB/s for whole RAID0 read speed then would I calculate the maximum transfer speed of my 3Gb/s SATA RAID0 at a maximum of 350MB/s and therefore bottle necking and needing to be moved onto a 6Gb/s conection or would I put the maximum through put of the whole RAID at 1400MB/s becuse all 4 drives are reading and writting at the same time?

Yep, I'm just rummaging about for a spear USB drive, I hope it's the drive and not the DVD. Everything's so difficult!

I've just turned on my first PC, which I have built over the last few days, it's a variation on November the 9th's ultimate video editing build. Making me as new as they get so please excuse an idiotic mistakes. I was trying to set up the RAID on the Motherboard and am confused about how to calculate the possible speed of the thing. At first I thought 6Gb/s SATA ports would deliver a maximum of 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SATA ports would deliver a maximum of 3Gb/s so I put 2 drives on the 6Gb/s and will try to put them in RAID0 when I work out how to do it but then I though that if I put 4 HDD's on the 4 3Gb/s in a RAID0 then it would write files to all 4 drives and read from them all at the same time, this is my understanding of RAID0. So if it reads from 4 3Gb/s HDD's at the same time that would give it a maximum read of 12Gb/s? I understand that real world speeds are not as good as this and that adding dives is actually a diminishing return in speed but I only need around 300MB/s read speeds so if I could use the 4 3Gb/s ports for the RAID it would free up the 6Gb/s for other things such as scratch SSD and such. So is a bank of HDD's on 3Gb/s capped at 3Gb/s or would the limit increase with each drive I added? As I'm writing this I'm realizing that the DVD drive is not working properly, it's making a horrible noise and the windows installation DVD is stuck at 47%! Can I just eject it and start again without it coursing a problem?