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NeutronGTX
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Hi, so I have decided to finally get an SSD, I already have 2 HDDs which I would like to setup in Raid 0 when I get the SSD (yes I know there is no redundancy in raid 0 and I'm OK with that), I would like to know the best way to go about this, I've never setup Raid before so I'm a total n00b :P

CPU: i5 2500K @ 4.2GHZ, GPU: AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB, RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8gb (2X4GB) 1600MHZ, Mobo: Asus P8Z77M, Chassis: Phanteks P400s Tempered Glass edition, Storage: Seagate 1TB + Samsung 2TB In RAID 0 + Crucial MX100 256GB SSD, Sound Card: Asus Xonar DS, Mouse: Steelseries Sensei, Keyboard: CM Storm Quick Fire Pro, Monitor: BenQ G2410HD + Samsung SA1900

 

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Hi, so I have decided to finally get an SSD, I already have 2 HDDs which I would like to setup in Raid 0 when I get the SSD (yes I know there is no redundancy in raid 0 and I'm OK with that), I would like to know the best way to go about this, I've never setup Raid before so I'm a total n00b :P

I would just use Windows Disk Management.

Usually Software RAID sucks. And Windows Software RAID tends to be the worst of it. However, it's simple RAID 0. Even Windows can do that. 

Click Start. Type "Disk". Click "Create and format hard disk partitions." Right click the HDD you want to stripe (RAID 0). Click "New Striped Volume." Then you'd click the other drive to stripe it with (the other HDD). Mount/give it (the RAID 0 array) a drive letter. Bam. Done. 

I'm assuming your OS is gonna be on the SSD. 

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Did you check if your motherboard is compatible with fake-raid? is way better than windows raid. 

 

Linus has great videos about RAID and how to configure, check out it! ;)

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Hi, so I have decided to finally get an SSD, I already have 2 HDDs which I would like to setup in Raid 0 when I get the SSD (yes I know there is no redundancy in raid 0 and I'm OK with that), I would like to know the best way to go about this, I've never setup Raid before so I'm a total n00b :P

If you want to use the RAID controller built on to the motherboard as opposed to a software RAID solution, you will have to make a backup of your data as the RAID creation process formats the drives.

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I would suggest using a hardware RAID controller, built into your motherboard.

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Ok, thanks for the replies, I don't care about having to format my drives so do you suggest I use software Raid or my motherboard's Raid

CPU: i5 2500K @ 4.2GHZ, GPU: AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB, RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8gb (2X4GB) 1600MHZ, Mobo: Asus P8Z77M, Chassis: Phanteks P400s Tempered Glass edition, Storage: Seagate 1TB + Samsung 2TB In RAID 0 + Crucial MX100 256GB SSD, Sound Card: Asus Xonar DS, Mouse: Steelseries Sensei, Keyboard: CM Storm Quick Fire Pro, Monitor: BenQ G2410HD + Samsung SA1900

 

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Ok, thanks for the replies, I don't care about having to format my drives so do you suggest I use software Raid or my motherboard's Raid

 

Mobo as in hardware RAID assuming it supports it and plugin your drives to the fastest SATA ports.

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