RAID 0 Question

[d3nia1]

Hey,

 

I have a Seagate Barracuda 500GB drive which I use mostly for video editing and some games (I.E. F:).  I also have a Western Digital 500gb from which all my programs boot from, including my OS. (I.E. Local Drive C:)

 

I would like to do a RAID 0 on them... Is this possible if one of the drives is my Local Drive (C:)?  Is it possible to RAID them even if they are different brands but the same size?

 

Thanks in advance!

[CoolBeans]

Yes, I believe so but I wouldn't do it incase one of the drives fails you're basically screwed.

[d3nia1]

Yes, I believe so but I wouldn't do it incase one of the drives fails you're basically screwed.

Yes... What would be ideal is the RAID that stripes the data, and makes a copy of it... but for that I would need 4 hard drives :0 which I can't afford right now!

[Haggis_]

I would suggest that you buy a SSD instead for the os and programs. The difference is huge. Then you can do a raid 0 of the 2 hdd if you want, but i would use one for games, editing, mp3, pictures etc and use the other one for backup

[Godlygamer23]

I would suggest that you buy a SSD instead for the os and programs. The difference is huge. Then you can do a raid 0 of the 2 hdd if you want, but i would use one for games, editing, mp3, pictures etc and use the other one for backup

When you do RAID 0 with two drives, they form a single virtual unit according to the OS.

[laxer]

Yes you can put them in raid0.

 

You will however lose all the data on your drive. (you can backup and restore it)

[Haggis_]

When you do RAID 0 with two drives, they form a single virtual unit according to the OS.

Yes, dont think i said othervise

[Godlygamer23]

Yes, dont think i said othervise

You said you can use one for games(and other things) and the other for backups. It doesn't work that way if they're in RAID 0.

[WoodenMarker]

Yes, you can raid them although it works better if they are exactly the same.

 

Why are you going to raid them? Faster scratchdisk?

[Haggis_]

You said you can use one for games(and other things) and the other for backups. It doesn't work that way if they're in RAID 0.

I did write "but" first. I try to be more clear next time

[d3nia1]

Yes, you can raid them although it works better if they are exactly the same.

 

Why are you going to raid them? Faster scratchdisk?

I just wanted to raid them to make things simpler on my computer and make things faster... But I think I'll wait on RAIDing and get an SSD sometime in the near future.

[WoodenMarker]

I just wanted to raid them to make things simpler on my computer and make things faster... But I think I'll wait on RAIDing and get an SSD sometime in the near future.

Good idea.