Raid 0 Array on windows 7

[Dynamistic]

I created my raid 0 array on the bios and booted on my SSD. I went to disk manager to confirm this and it shows it as 1 drive however it asks me to set it as a simple, spanned or striped. I dont know why  it says this, i thought I already made it raid 0 on my bios, how come its asking to make it raid again? If i choose stripp it asks for two drives but i already have a raid 0 array set up, what do i do, do i just go with simple volume or what? please help.

[ross06187]

the device manger gives you those options to make a software raid, this is different from the bios 1.  the device manager will not know its in raid as the raid control makes it look like one drive.

 

just to state the obvious you do have 2 ssd's or  more?

[Dynamistic]

the device manger gives you those options to make a software raid, this is different from the bios 1.  the device manager will not know its in raid as the raid control makes it look like one drive.

 

just to state the obvious you do have 2 ssd's or  more?

I have 1 ssd as boot drive and 2 caviar black that i put in raid 0, Im wondering if i should just put them as a simple volume on disk management or do something else cause even though its in raid 0 its still asking me to put in a raid.

[ross06187]

I have 1 ssd as boot drive and 2 caviar black that i put in raid 0, Im wondering if i should just put them as a simple volume on disk management or do something else cause even though its in raid 0 its still asking me to put in a raid.

it should not do that can you give some screen shots of the disks manager

[Dynamistic]

it should not do that can you give some screen shots of the disks manager

 

 

I ended up just using simple volume (you can see on the left side)

 

I dont know why it did this but I am on a tight schedule and I have to re install everything.

 

Please still tell me what is wrong if there will be any problems cause of what i did.

 

 

 

 

 

[ross06187]

I ended up just using simple volume (you can see on the left side)

 

I dont know why it did this but I am on a tight schedule and I have to re install everything.

 

Please still tell me what is wrong if there will be any problems cause of what i did.

 

 

that looks fine.  windows was treating the rad0 like a new hard dive and was offering options for software raid. Thats where you can stripe data across multiple drives ,new simple volume was the correct choice.

 

Rade0 would not me my first choice for a storage array?  you need to remember everything you put on it is at twice the risk of it being on a normal drive and that you have no redundancy.  you should keep backups.

 

or only put data you are willing to lose on the drive