Adding Raid to existing non-raid PC

[TheSpottedCow]

Hey guys,

 

So the title basically says it. I currently have two SSD's installed in my system (non-raid) with the second one added after building my PC. I was looking to buy two 3 TB hard drives and set them up into a Raid config. I want to leave my SSD's independent and just have the speed boost with the two 3 TB's in Raid. Is there a way to do this without affecting the SSD's?

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

Hey guys,

 

So the title basically says it. I currently have two SSD's installed in my system (non-raid) with the second one added after building my PC. I was looking to buy two 3 TB hard drives and set them up into a Raid config. I want to leave my SSD's independent and just have the speed boost with the two 3 TB's in Raid. Is there a way to do this without affecting the SSD's?

yeah. as long as the RAID array isn't including the SSDs, they won't be affected. do you mean RAID 0 or 1? I see no purpose of RAID 0 in data drives as it doesn't provide redundancy, and to have any of the data, it relies on both drives. I much prefer to have important data on both drives, then unimportant storage on just one drive.

[TheSpottedCow]

yeah. as long as the RAID array isn't including the SSDs, they won't be affected. do you mean RAID 0 or 1? I see no purpose of RAID 0 in data drives as it doesn't provide redundancy, and to have any of the data, it relies on both drives. I much prefer to have important data on both drives, then unimportant storage on just one drive.

Sorry for the overkill delay in a response. Thanks for the reply, but since Windows 10 will be releasing soon I have a new idea and question.

 

I plan to wipe both of my SSD's, install my 3 new hard drives, raid the SSD's together, then raid the hard drives together and then install Windows 10 and call it a day.

 

Both SSD's are different capacities, one 120GB and the other 240GB. Would the different capacity SSD's not work properly if setup in a raid together?

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

Sorry for the overkill delay in a response. Thanks for the reply, but since Windows 10 will be releasing soon I have a new idea and question.

 

I plan to wipe both of my SSD's, install my 3 new hard drives, raid the SSD's together, then raid the hard drives together and then install Windows 10 and call it a day.

 

Both SSD's are different capacities, one 120GB and the other 240GB. Would the different capacity SSD's not work properly if setup in a raid together?

you can't properly RAID different capacity drives, only extend partitions (which has no speed benifit and no real benifits at all)

chances are that your 240GB drive is faster than the 120GB drive, so I'd just use the 240gb as the main drive to save you lots of headaches.