RAID or Not to RAID

[Chennaiyen]

Hi, I have completed my build and downloading the bootable OS. Just want to make sure before Starting up.  I have 2- HDDs, 2-Nvme drives and 1 SSD. I would like to use the drives as they are meaning, 5 different partition for each drives ex: C:NVME, D:SSD, E:Nvme, F:HDD, G:HDD. Does this need any kind of RAID or no RAID means the above setup? 

[ARikozuM]

No RAID for those. RAID is for connecting two or more drives into a single logical disk. 

 

Example: Drive 1 and 2 will become RAID 0 for drive letter D:

[Chennaiyen]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

No RAID for those. RAID is for connecting two or more drives into a single logical disk. 

@ARikozuM, Thanks for the confirmation! 

[straight_stewie]

9 minutes ago, Chennaiyen said:

C:NVME, D:SSD, E:Nvme,

Although, if your two NVMe drives are identical and your motherboard supports raid for NVMe (it may not), you might consider running them in RAID 0 for the fun of it, just to see how blazing fast it would be.

[Chennaiyen]

5 minutes ago, straight_stewie said:

Although, if your two NVMe drives are identical and your motherboard supports raid for NVMe (it may not), you might consider running them in RAID 0 for the fun of it, just to see how blazing fast it would be.

@straight_stewie, I have Asus Maximus hero X wifi version and installed a Samsung 960 Evo 250GB & WD 512Gb. Is it still possible?

[straight_stewie]

Just now, Chennaiyen said:

I have Asus Maximus hero X wifi version and installed a Samsung 960 Evo 250GB & WD 512Gb. Is it still possible?

Is this your first build?

[Chennaiyen]

Just now, straight_stewie said:

Is this your first build?

Yes!

[straight_stewie]

Just now, Chennaiyen said:

Yes!

Maybe skip my idea for now since you are running such an interesting mix of drive types. 

If you're confident that you can handle a stroll through your motherboards manual in order to set it up properly, then your motherboard will support a raid 0 volume on your NVMe cards so long as the cards are identical.

[Chennaiyen]

18 minutes ago, straight_stewie said:

Maybe skip my idea for now since you are running such an interesting mix of drive types. 

If you're confident that you can handle a stroll through your motherboards manual in order to set it up properly, then your motherboard will support a raid 0 volume on your NVMe cards so long as the cards are identical.

@straight_stewie, ok, I am planning to install the OS in one of the NVMe drives. 

[Enderman]

No you don't want to use raid.

You should unplug everything except the drive you're installing windows on during the process.

Later on you can plug them back in and go into admin tools in windows, find disk management and make new simple volumes on each of the other drives.

[Chennaiyen]

5 minutes ago, Enderman said:

No you don't want to use raid.

You should unplug everything except the drive you're installing windows on during the process.

Later on you can plug them back in and go into admin tools in windows, find disk management and make new simple volumes on each of the other drives.

@Enderman, Oh! I have connected all my drive up and ready. Can I not choose on which drive to install the OS?

[Enderman]

5 minutes ago, Chennaiyen said:

@Enderman, Oh! I have connected all my drive up and ready. Can I not choose on which drive to install the OS?

Yeah but windows is dumb and sometimes puts system partitions on incorrect drives which causes future issues.

It's always recommended to unplug unnecessary drives during the installation.

[Chennaiyen]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

Yeah but windows is dumb and sometimes puts system partitions on incorrect drives which causes future issues.

It's always recommended to unplug unnecessary drives during the installation.

Thanks! I am going to have my one Nvme drive connected and disconnect the rest.