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Would this work in raid?

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I have a Samsung 840 Evo 500GB ssd and I am planning on getting another SSD to RAID 0. If I buy samsung 850 evo 500GB will there be any problems with them both adding up to 1TB? Also under device and drives would it show up as two drives or would it just add up to one? 

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Raid 0 is that raid where you get the performance of 2 drives and the storage of one drive.

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It'll work, you'll see one drive in your explorer but in disk management you'll see 2 different drives

 

 

Raid 0 is that raid where you get the performance of 2 drives and the storage of one drive.

 No, your storage will be disk 1 + disk 2

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Should work.

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It'll work, you'll see one drive in your explorer but in disk management you'll see 2 different drives

 

 
 

 No, your storage will be disk 1 + disk 2

 

 

Just wanted to correct this, it will show as 1 drive in explorer and in device manager.  Unless you are using a software raid solution.  But if you are using a hardware solution (either onboard or addin card), the OS will only see a single drive.  For onboard the BIOS will see each drive, but for an add in card, the BIOS would only see the card and no drives.

 

You are correct on the storage size though (assuming both drives are equal size).

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Just wanted to correct this, it will show as 1 drive in explorer and in device manager.  Unless you are using a software raid solution.  But if you are using a hardware solution (either onboard or addin card), the OS will only see a single drive.  For onboard the BIOS will see each drive, but for an add in card, the BIOS would only see the card and no drives.

 

You are correct on the storage size though (assuming both drives are equal size).

RAID 0 is set up with software most of the time 

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Hi there @JimmieJongers!

 

Yes, you should be able to setup a RAID with those two drives. As for how the drives will show up - in Disk management there will be both drives showing, and in Windows explorer there will be seen as one unit.

 

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