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RAID them and RAID with pride!

 

You will only end up with errors if you pull one of the two drives out while the system is running. So if you don't have hard drive cable turrets you'll be fine. Your mobo has the feature included because its good not because they want to troll you.

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i have 2x2TB WD green HDD's, and i wonder if i should set them up in RAID 0. is it all good, or will i just end up with a load of errors and corrupted files?

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 case: inwin GRone black   PSU: corsair RM750   mobo: MSI Z87-G45 gaming   CPU: i5 4670K @4,0GHz  CPU-cooler: corsair H100i   RAM: corsair vengeance pro 2x8GB 1866MHz CL9   GPU: 2x MSI n770 TF 2GD5/OC @1,300/3,760GHz   SSD: samsung 840 EVO 120GB (S.M.A.R.T enabled)   HDD: 2x WD green 2TB (going RAID 0 next win-install)   CD: asus DRW-24F1ST    OS: windows 8.1   monitor: asus VN247H & dell 1703FP  additional cooling: 2x140mm inwin fans, 3x140mm inwin red led fans, 4x140mm bitfenix spectre pro red led fans, 2x120mm stock h100i fans, 2x120mm corsair sp120 red led  
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Why bother raid 0ing two mechanical drives? It won't do all that much for performance they're that slow. You'd be better putting them in raid 1 for redundancy or not doing a raid array at all, so you have the full 4tb of storage.

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What are you using the HDDs for?

 

mostly games

OPERATION BUNNYGAMER: 

  PC:

 case: inwin GRone black   PSU: corsair RM750   mobo: MSI Z87-G45 gaming   CPU: i5 4670K @4,0GHz  CPU-cooler: corsair H100i   RAM: corsair vengeance pro 2x8GB 1866MHz CL9   GPU: 2x MSI n770 TF 2GD5/OC @1,300/3,760GHz   SSD: samsung 840 EVO 120GB (S.M.A.R.T enabled)   HDD: 2x WD green 2TB (going RAID 0 next win-install)   CD: asus DRW-24F1ST    OS: windows 8.1   monitor: asus VN247H & dell 1703FP  additional cooling: 2x140mm inwin fans, 3x140mm inwin red led fans, 4x140mm bitfenix spectre pro red led fans, 2x120mm stock h100i fans, 2x120mm corsair sp120 red led  
  OTHER: 
mouse: madcatz M.M.O 7   keyboard: madcatz S.T.R.I.K.E 7 & logitech G13   headset: razer tiamat 7.1 elite   speakers: logitech Z906 5.1 surround   gadgets: USB fridge  :P
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RAID them and RAID with pride!

 

You will only end up with errors if you pull one of the two drives out while the system is running. So if you don't have hard drive cable turrets you'll be fine. Your mobo has the feature included because its good not because they want to troll you.

I roll with sigs off so I have no idea what you're advertising.

 

This is NOT the signature you are looking for.

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RAID them and RAID with pride!

 

You will only end up with errors if you pull one of the two drives out while the system is running. So if you don't have hard drive cable turrets you'll be fine. Your mobo has the feature included because its good not because they want to troll you.

 

Then RAID them

 

THEN RAID I SHALL!!!

OPERATION BUNNYGAMER: 

  PC:

 case: inwin GRone black   PSU: corsair RM750   mobo: MSI Z87-G45 gaming   CPU: i5 4670K @4,0GHz  CPU-cooler: corsair H100i   RAM: corsair vengeance pro 2x8GB 1866MHz CL9   GPU: 2x MSI n770 TF 2GD5/OC @1,300/3,760GHz   SSD: samsung 840 EVO 120GB (S.M.A.R.T enabled)   HDD: 2x WD green 2TB (going RAID 0 next win-install)   CD: asus DRW-24F1ST    OS: windows 8.1   monitor: asus VN247H & dell 1703FP  additional cooling: 2x140mm inwin fans, 3x140mm inwin red led fans, 4x140mm bitfenix spectre pro red led fans, 2x120mm stock h100i fans, 2x120mm corsair sp120 red led  
  OTHER: 
mouse: madcatz M.M.O 7   keyboard: madcatz S.T.R.I.K.E 7 & logitech G13   headset: razer tiamat 7.1 elite   speakers: logitech Z906 5.1 surround   gadgets: USB fridge  :P
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