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To start things off, I have literally not experience with any sort of RAID setups so please don't roast me for looking like an idiot. So I want to setup my two hard drives (HHD) into RAID 0 but I want to keep all of my files that are currently on my main hard drive. On the other hand, my other hard drive does not have anything on it so that should be fine. So my question is, how do I keep all of my files on my first hard drive while still making a RAID 0 array? 

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2 minutes ago, Jasun said:

To start things off, I have literally not experience with any sort of RAID setups so please don't roast me for looking like an idiot. So I want to setup my two hard drives (HHD) into RAID 0 but I want to keep all of my files that are currently on my main hard drive. On the other hand, my other hard drive does not have anything on it so that should be fine. So my question is, how do I keep all of my files on my first hard drive while still making a RAID 0 array? 

I've never personally worked with RAID, but AFAIK you need to format them to make a RAID volume, so you cannot keep your data.

Make a backup on another disk and copy it back afterwards. Why do you want RAID 0?

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As far as I remember, if you're creating a raid array they will be formatted. I'm talking about hardware raid (bios raid) here. Not sure about software raid.

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You can't keep the data when making a RAID array. Why RAID 0? You'll have no redundancy, and if one disk fails, say bye to all data.

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Cant be done. All data is erased as soon as the array is created. You’d have to copy the data first if you want to keep it

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1 minute ago, tikker said:

I've never personally worked with RAID, but AFAIK you need to format them to make a RAID volume, so you cannot keep your data.

Make a backup on another disk and copy it back afterwards. Why do you want RAID 0?

I've heard that RAID 0 increases performance and so I want to try it out. Will it be worth the trouble for something that is free or no?

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I've heard that RAID 0 increases performance and so I want to try it out. Will it be worth the trouble for something that is free or no?

Yeah you'll get faster performance as the data is spread across the two drives. There's no tolerance though. If one drive fails all the data is lost.

If you want to experiment do go and try. Just make sure important data is somewhere safe :) 

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1 minute ago, Jasun said:

I've heard that RAID 0 increases performance and so I want to try it out. Will it be worth the trouble for something that is free or no?

It can increase performance, but if one drive in the array dies, all data is lost from both drives.

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@tikker @Jamiec1130 @Helly @NMS I want to try for the hell of it but how should I go about when backing up my data? I don't have a external drive just lying around with at least 300 gigs of space...

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If you have time and patience then try MEGA. They offer 50 GB of free space. It's far from your required 300 but there's no better cloud service that offers that much space for free.

 

But then I have a question. Are you trying to do this with a drive that has OS installed on it? Because if so, this might be tricky. As chances are, complete re-installment of Windows might be required later on. Boot drive requires the formatting be done in a specific way.

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2 minutes ago, Jasun said:

@tikker @Jamiec1130 @Helly @NMS I want to try for the hell of it but how should I go about when backing up my data? I don't have a external drive just lying around with at least 300 gigs of space...

Cloud storage, extra HDD or buy an external drive?

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2 minutes ago, NMS said:

If you have time and patience then try MEGA. They offer 50 GB of free space. It's far from your required 300 but there's no better cloud service that offers that much space for free.

 

But then I have a question. Are you trying to do this with a drive that has OS installed on it? Because if so, this might be tricky. As chances are, complete re-installment of Windows might be required later on. Boot drive requires the formatting be done in a specific way.

Yeah...I probably will give up on the idea for now...I'm too lazy to reinstall everything. :P 

"May your frame rates be high and your temperatures low"

I misread titles/posts way too often--correct me if I don't.

 

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1 minute ago, Jasun said:

Yeah...I probably will give up on the idea for now...I'm too lazy to reinstall everything. :P 

Nevertheless, get a cheap SSD. They are much more reliable than they used to be back in the day.

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11 minutes ago, Jasun said:

I've heard that RAID 0 increases performance and so I want to try it out. Will it be worth the trouble for something that is free or no?

it increases performace but increases the risk of losing data

 

7 minutes ago, Jasun said:

I don't have a external drive just lying around with at least 300 gigs of space...

then buy one.

 

you should do regular backups on an external drive anyways.

RAID 0 has no protection at all but even RAID 1 does only protect against hardware failure - it does not protect your data against file system corruption, viruses or human error

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U have two of the same drives. Copy any files you want to keep off them to another storage device.

 

When creating the raid array will erase all the contents off both the drives u select for the array. 

 

Once it's created u can copy them back

 

Be sure to check that there identicle drives. Just not in capacity.

 

Having a older slower drive paired in raid with a new faster one will defeat the purpose.  The slower drive will be hindering the performance gain wanted switching to raid in the first place

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