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10 hours ago, Mrtrickzter said:

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Hey there :)

 

The idea sounds good since you understand the risks and have a backup plan. 

You can easily go to Disk Management and create a Striped array from the two HDDs. Have in mind that this formats the two drives and any data on them will be erased. 

Another thing to have in mind is that RAID0 improves the sequential speeds but has little effect on the random read/write performance of a drive so in many cases you won't notice much of an improvement. 

 

Post back if you have any questions! 

 

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hello guys, I got 2 HDD (both has 5400 rpm speed) and an SSD (Samsung evo sata ssd). I would like to raid my 2 HDD only (I will make it raid 0 since I back up my computer frequently) and leave my ssd alone from any raid or anything. My ssd will be purely use for storing OS and other things that is related to OS. My HDD will be a mass drive. I hope I able to make you guys understand what I want to do. I understand the risk on doing raid 0. Let me know anything that you guys want to tell me. if you guys disagree, what else I should do? Thanks alot guys

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Yeah that makes sense. SSD as boot drive and RAID 0 HDDs for other storage

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go into disk management to create it. I think that is a fine idea as long as you back up regular 

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10 hours ago, Mrtrickzter said:

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Hey there :)

 

The idea sounds good since you understand the risks and have a backup plan. 

You can easily go to Disk Management and create a Striped array from the two HDDs. Have in mind that this formats the two drives and any data on them will be erased. 

Another thing to have in mind is that RAID0 improves the sequential speeds but has little effect on the random read/write performance of a drive so in many cases you won't notice much of an improvement. 

 

Post back if you have any questions! 

 

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18 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Yeah that makes sense. SSD as boot drive and RAID 0 HDDs for other storage

lolz yeah.

17 hours ago, Senzelian said:

I tried Raid 0 on two Toshiba 7200RPM drives and I saw no performance improvement.
I don't recommend Raid 0 at all. It's more work than fun.

I don't actually really need the speed since my HDD is a mass drive. Also I hear that using raid 0 is one of the way to combine two hdd size together. I hear that raid 10 is better since I got both raid 1 and 0 but I cannot afford 4 HDD lolz.

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lolz yeah.

I don't actually really need the speed since my HDD is a mass drive. Also I hear that using raid 0 is one of the way to combine two hdd size together. I hear that raid 10 is better since I got both raid 1 and 0 but I cannot afford 4 HDD lolz.

Oh, one other thing to mention.  It's not strictly necessary but ideally you would use drives designed for use in RAID, such as the WD Red drives.  Just thought I'd bring that up since our IAs can't advertise unprovoked :P

 

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On ‎7‎/‎14‎/‎2016 at 2:33 PM, Ryan_Vickers said:

Oh, one other thing to mention.  It's not strictly necessary but ideally you would use drives designed for use in RAID, such as the WD Red drives.  Just thought I'd bring that up since our IAs can't advertise unprovoked :P

 

great to hear :) 

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