RAID Setup

[PhilDrudd]

Alright so I'm in advanced stage of building my first pc and I saw in my Motherboard manual about RAID setup so do I have to go through that? It says I have to have at least 2 HDDs to perform one of the RAID setup stages (0,1,5,10) so what now,now I have to buy anothe HDD? Do I have to go through that or?

[Roswell]

You don't need to have your drives in a RAID if you don't want to.

[Kilrah]

It's a feature that's available if you want it, no need to care about it at all if you don't.

[LIGISTX]

3 minutes ago, PhilDrudd said:

Alright so I'm in advanced stage of building my first pc and I saw in my Motherboard manual about RAID setup so do I have to go through that? It says I have to have at least 2 HDDs to perform one of the RAID setup stages (0,1,5,10) so what now,now I have to buy anothe HDD? Do I have to go through that or?

RAID is just an option. If you don't think you need RAID, you don't need RAID. lol. 

 

Don't worry about it :). If there is an option in your BIOS SATA controller options for RAID, IDE, or AHCI, pick AHCI.

[PhilDrudd]

Just now, Kilrah said:

It's a feature that's available if you want it, no need to care about it at all if you don't.

would you recommend it? I'm thinking of going for the mirrored one (1). I have 1TB SSD and one 4TB HDD. The fact that it can prevent one hard drive from losing data sounds cool to me.

[PhilDrudd]

Im going to be editing videos,photos probably make some music on my pc so yeah maybe I should go with RAID IDK whats your suggestions guys

[Kilrah]

You need 2 identical ones or you'll be wasting the bigger one's capacity (RAID1 with 1TB and 4TB gives you 1TB), and it would only protect against a small subset of potential failures. Better do completely independent regular backups on an external drive.

[PhilDrudd]

18 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

You need 2 identical ones or you'll be wasting the bigger one's capacity (RAID1 with 1TB and 4TB gives you 1TB), and it would only protect against a small subset of potential failures. Better do completely independent regular backups on an external drive.

yeah gotcha. So yeah I think I'm gonna go with ACHI and buy the external hard drive to do backup on it. If I'm talking sense lol this is new to me I'm learning give me a break XD

[Windows7ge]

1 hour ago, PhilDrudd said:

would you recommend it? I'm thinking of going for the mirrored one (1). I have 1TB SSD and one 4TB HDD. The fact that it can prevent one hard drive from losing data sounds cool to me.

I don't recommend motherboard RAID. It's not good. Not to mention RAID is not a backup. If you plan to store important project files and documents on this machine you should look into a NAS and/or cloud storage.

 

If you want to play with RAID for your local bulk storage look into Windows Storage Spaces. Keep most of your important project data on that (it'd be your D:\ or E:\ drive) then backup over the network.