raid question

[WarWeeny]

When i first installed my components, and had windows running, i found out quite a bit later that my SSD and HDD were in raid 0 - now my question is, if i want to have the 2 drives separate again, what raid should i choose?

If i choose a different raid, do i lose data of both drives or just 1 of them? (i suspect both)

[Edelrat]

When in RAID 0, you will lose the data of both drives when you delete the RAID. If you want to seperate them again you shouldn´t choose any raid in order to make them work seperated from each other.

[WarWeeny]

2 hours ago, MEOOOOOOOOOOOOW said:

When in RAID 0, you will lose the data of both drives when you delete the RAID. If you want to seperate them again you shouldn´t choose any raid in order to make them work seperated from each other.

yeah, i saw different options besides raid, later when i dug into the bios again.

 

Thanks for the reply.

[EmeraldFlame]

10 hours ago, WarWeeny said:

yeah, i saw different options besides raid, later when i dug into the bios again.

 

Thanks for the reply.

Yup, if you want to separate them most of the time you will want to choose AHCI mode for your drives, unless you have one of the higher end SSDs that are running NVMe, than use that for that SSD.

[Captain_WD]

On 26.03.2016 г. at 1:11 PM, WarWeeny said:

~snip~

Hey there WarWeeny,

 

When swapping RAID types or destroying a RAID array all drives in the array need to be reformatted and thus the data in them will be lost. In such case it is highly recommended that you have a full backup of everything in your array in case you need to change it or something goes bad.

 

Another bad thing about this is that RAID generally limits all drives to the capacity of the smallest one and the speed of all drives to the one of the slowest one. In your case both drives are limited to the capacity of the SSD and to the speed of the HDD. All RAID type will do that.

In your case I would use the two drives as separate storage devices or a JBOD mode. 

 

Another problem with RAID0 is that it offers absolutely no redundancy and in case something happens with either of the drives you would lose the data on both of them. 

 

Post back if you need more info regarding RAID

 

Captain_WD.

[WarWeeny]

29 minutes ago, Captain_WD said:

Hey there WarWeeny,

 

When swapping RAID types or destroying a RAID array all drives in the array need to be reformatted and thus the data in them will be lost. In such case it is highly recommended that you have a full backup of everything in your array in case you need to change it or something goes bad.

 

Another bad thing about this is that RAID generally limits all drives to the capacity of the smallest one and the speed of all drives to the one of the slowest one. In your case both drives are limited to the capacity of the SSD and to the speed of the HDD. All RAID type will do that.

In your case I would use the two drives as separate storage devices or a JBOD mode. 

 

Another problem with RAID0 is that it offers absolutely no redundancy and in case something happens with either of the drives you would lose the data on both of them. 

 

Post back if you need more info regarding RAID

 

Captain_WD.

Yeah, i backed up the stuff i wanted to have backed up, and put both drives in AHCI.

This pretty much was what i wanted.

 

Thanks for the extra info.

[leadeater]

Are you sure the disks were in RAID 0? The disk controller mode can be set to RAID but that doesn't mean there is any RAID configurations set up, you would of had to have done this using the RAID configuration utility at boot (required to RAID an OS disk) before installing Windows.

 

Did Windows show two disks or one? If one did the Intel RST utility actually show the two disks being in a RAID 0?

 

I know it's a little late to ask since you've already solved your problem, just find it hard to believe you actually did RAID 0 your SSD with the HDD.

[Captain_WD]

19 hours ago, WarWeeny said:

~snip~

 

You are welcome. Using the drives in RAID mode has nothing wrong in it. For the most part, AHCI is included in the RAID mode and some companies even recommend using it regardless if you are creating actual RAID arrays or using the drives in JBOD mode. 

 

As @leadeater asked, were the drives actually in RAID0? Were they seen as one large volume? 

 

Captain_WD.