RAID 2 HDD Question

[bry.yyyy]

i completely 0% knowledge of RAID Thing and i wanted too full speed my HDD 

This question i need too ask 

 

1.Do I need too buy RAID Controller for RAID My hdd ?
2.what risk i doing raid ?
3.do raid will lose all my data ?

[Archangel1994]

You cannot raid with 1 HDD

[bry.yyyy]

You cannot raid with 1 HDD

i got 2 Seagate 1 TB HDD

[bry.yyyy]

should i follow this tutorial from linus ?

[bbrooking18]

You probably won't need a RAID card if you mobo supports RAID, many do, but check in the specs, usually not quite as effective as a dedicated card.

If you setup a RAID 0 array then losing 1 drive will break the array and prevent you from recovering the data, can be done but requires a specialist and therefore expensive 

If your worried but want increased speed then RAID 5 with three drives maybe worth a look or RAID 10 with 4 drives

[bry.yyyy]

You probably won't need a RAID card if you mobo supports RAID, many do, but check in the specs, usually not quite as effective as a dedicated card.

If you setup a RAID 0 array then losing 1 drive will break the array and prevent you from recovering the data, can be done but requires a specialist and therefore expensive 

If your worried but want increased speed then RAID 5 with three drives maybe worth a look or RAID 10 with 4 drives

if i do RAID 0 Did i need too reinstall my windows ? do i lose all data after i RAID ?

[bbrooking18]

if i do RAID 0 Did i need too reinstall my windows ? do i lose all data after i RAID ?

I don't believe so, you should be fine

[bry.yyyy]

I don't believe so, you should be fine

Does ASUS P8H61-M LX Support RAID ? Should i follow linus tutorial ?

[Captain_WD]

i completely 0% knowledge of RAID Thing and i wanted too full speed my HDD 

This question i need too ask 

 

1.Do I need too buy RAID Controller for RAID My hdd ?

2.what risk i doing raid ?

3.do raid will lose all my data ?

 

 

Hey lolbry9,

 

RAID generally stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks and it basically means a set of drives (two or more) that work together as one. 

 

1. You do not need to buy a RAID controller card if your motherboard supports RAID. What is your motherboard?

 

2. There are several RAID types: striping (data is split in parts) that gives speed boost, mirroring (a identical copy of a drive is created on another one) that gives you redundancy, spanning (basically several drives seen as one huge volume) that simply enables many drives to be seen as one big volume without any change in performance or redundancy and a combination between these types. the ones that give you speed boost (RAID0, RAID5, RAID6, RAID10, etc.) have the data split. Because of that if one of the drives fail, you lose all data on all the drives. Some of these RAID types provide redundancy (fault tolerance) and when a drive fails, you can reconstruct the data by replacing the drive. Some RAID types have more than 1 drive tolerance. RAID6 and RAID10 can sustain 2 drives failing and still keep your data whole. 

 

3. If you configure a RAID array, you need to format all the drives that are going to be part of the RAID array. This means that all data on these drives will be erased. 

 

Sadly, the motherboard that you listed does not support RAID.

 

Captain_WD.

[bry.yyyy]

 

Hey lolbry9,

 

RAID generally stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks and it basically means a set of drives (two or more) that work together as one. 

 

1. You do not need to buy a RAID controller card if your motherboard supports RAID. What is your motherboard?

 

2. There are several RAID types: striping (data is split in parts) that gives speed boost, mirroring (a identical copy of a drive is created on another one) that gives you redundancy, spanning (basically several drives seen as one huge volume) that simply enables many drives to be seen as one big volume without any change in performance or redundancy and a combination between these types. the ones that give you speed boost (RAID0, RAID5, RAID6, RAID10, etc.) have the data split. Because of that if one of the drives fail, you lose all data on all the drives. Some of these RAID types provide redundancy (fault tolerance) and when a drive fails, you can reconstruct the data by replacing the drive. Some RAID types have more than 1 drive tolerance. RAID6 and RAID10 can sustain 2 drives failing and still keep your data whole. 

 

3. If you configure a RAID array, you need to format all the drives that are going to be part of the RAID array. This means that all data on these drives will be erased. 

 

Sadly, the motherboard that you listed does not support RAID.

 

Captain_WD.

 

1. my motherboard is ASUS P8H61-M LX 

2.I may going for RAID 0 And backup my data too my other pc 

3.so i need too format my windows partition ? and does it will cause damage too Hardrive if fail ?

[Captain_WD]

1. my motherboard is ASUS P8H61-M LX 

2.I may going for RAID 0 And backup my data too my other pc 

3.so i need too format my windows partition ? and does it will cause damage too Hardrive if fail ?

 

That motherboard does not support RAID, you would have to purchase a dedicated RAID controller card. 

 

RAID0 will theoretically double the speed if you use two similar drives. Data will be split in two and written on both drives. In this case, if either of the two drives fail, you will lose all data on both drives. It is strongly advised that you use identical drives in the array, otherwise the speed and the capacity of both drives will be limited to the slower one and to the one with less capacity (e.g. if you use one 2TB slow drive and one 1TB faster drive, both will have the capacity of 1TB and will work with the speed of the slower one).

 

The creation of the array involves formatting both drives which deletes all data on both of them. As I said, if one of the drives fail, data on both will be lost and corrupted. It should not cause physical damage, though.

 

Here's an example of the speed boost when using SSDs and HDDs: The jump in load times from HDD to SSD is like 10s to 1s. RAID 0 effectively (theoretically) halves the load time. So if you were to RAID 0 mechanical drives, it's 10s to 5s. You derive 5s of benefit. If you were to RAID 0 SSDs instead, its like 1s to 0.5s. You derive 0.5s of benefit. Just to demonstrate that striping SSDs is nowhere as beneficial compared to mechanical drives.

 

Captain_WD.