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Upgrading to Raid 1

Nilesh Gonsalves
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While RAID 1 does add redundancy, it will negatively impact your performance with slower write speeds. Cloud backups or regularly scheduled hard storage backups will be better for you unless you truly need instantaneous redundancy.

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I am planning to upgrade my current setup to RAID 1. Currently I have no redundency.

MB B760MDS3H AX Rev. 1.x DDR5

SSD Kingston NV2 500 GB.

 

Planning to populate the second NVME slot with another Kingston NV2 500 GB. While converting to RAID 1, I believe the drives will be wiped out. Is it possible to prevent this wipe out of my original drive while still making the second drive to be configured in to RAID 1?

 

 

Nilesh Gonsalves

 

Intel 12400F on Gigabyte B760M DS3H AX 1.x(DDR 5 MB)

XPG 8 GB X 4 4800 memory

Gigabyte RTX 3060 Windforce Graphics

Crucial PCIe 3.0 NVME SSD for Game drive

Cooler Master MWE 650 Power Supply

 

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While RAID 1 does add redundancy, it will negatively impact your performance with slower write speeds. Cloud backups or regularly scheduled hard storage backups will be better for you unless you truly need instantaneous redundancy.

Current PC:

    • CPU
      AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
    • Motherboard
      MSI MEG X870E Godlike
    • RAM
      G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo 24GBx2 DDR5-8000 CL40-48-48-128 1.40v (F5-8000J4048G24GX2-TZ5N)
    • GPU
      Aorus Xtreme Waterforce RTX 3090 TI
    • Case
      Corsair 7000D Airflow
    • Storage
      (All NVME SSDs) 1 X Samsung 990 Pro (4TB), 2 x 2TB WD Black sn850, Sabrent Rocket 4TB
    • PSU
      Corsair AX1600i, Fully Modular, 80+ Titanium
    • Display(s)
      Alienware AW3423DW, Alienware AW3225QF
    • Cooling
      Arctic Liquid Freezer ii 420, Built in 360mm gpu rad, 7 x 140mm Noctua NF-A14's (4 used as full case fan set, 3 used to upgrade cpu rad fans), 4 x 120mm Noctua NF-F12's (3 used to upgrade gpu rad stock fans, 1 used to fill last remaining case fan slot)
    • Keyboard
      Custom Keychron Q6 Pro
    • Mouse
      Asus Rog Spatha X
    • Sound
      Senheiser Momentum 4
    • Operating System
      Windows 11 Pro
     

 

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3 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You could make a backup and restore the backup?

 

But I'd generally stay away from raid on a desktop. SSDs are pretty reliable now, and backups are much better at keeping your data safe.

Hmm. Then I should think of my original plan to back up my boot drive to a Sata SSD, and tuck it away in case of uneventuality

 

 

Nilesh Gonsalves

 

Intel 12400F on Gigabyte B760M DS3H AX 1.x(DDR 5 MB)

XPG 8 GB X 4 4800 memory

Gigabyte RTX 3060 Windforce Graphics

Crucial PCIe 3.0 NVME SSD for Game drive

Cooler Master MWE 650 Power Supply

 

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