raid0 Questions

[C3DMaX]

hi guys,

 

i'm currently running windows and essential programs on a 240gb ocz vertex 460.

i have another one here and i would like to combine them to a raid0.

 

 

how should i do that? (bios or windows tools)

 

and will this format the drive that i am using now?

[itsMacyyyy]

BIOS and yes it will format the drive.

[Captain_WD]

hi guys,

 

i'm currently running windows and essential programs on a 240gb ocz vertex 460.

i have another one here and i would like to combine them to a raid0.

 

 

how should i do that? (bios or windows tools)

 

and will this format the drive that i am using now?

 

Hello C3DMaX,

 

BIOS RAID0 is more stable as it uses the motherboard RAID controller. On the other side, Software-based RAID0 tend to be more friendly in case of MOBO failure and you need to transfer the array to another system. Performance-wise, with today's fast CPUs, the diference is not that much.

There are ways to put the two drives in RAID without having to format them, but you cannot use them as boot drives as the OS cannot be booted from dynamic drives. If you need them for your OS, you will have to format them.

OS does not benefit from RAID0 SSDs. Moreover, there are lots of cases where OS boots 5-10 seconds slower from smaller SSDs in RAID0 compared to one single larger SSD.

 

Depending on what you need them for, I would say either get a third small one for your OS (60GB) and put these 2 in RAID0 from the BIOS with an off-site backup or use them separately.

 

Captain_WD.

[C3DMaX]

nah then ill just put the second vertex in and store games that i'd like to load fast on it

thanks anyways