ADVICE NEEDED FOR STORAGE SETUP

[Kaeb Koopman]

Im building a rig and i bought a 120gb ssd for fast windows booting. I intend on getting a 1 tb hdd in future. How should i setup my storage in bios to accomadate both drives. Ive seen talk about raid and ahci but im not sure whats best for my rig. 

[Komplett]

13 minutes ago, Kaeb Koopman said:

Im building a rig and i bought a 120gb ssd for fast windows booting. I intend on getting a 1 tb hdd in future. How should i setup my storage in bios to accomadate both drives. Ive seen talk about raid and ahci but im not sure whats best for my rig. 

What are you planning on raiding? 

[NelizMastr]

16 minutes ago, Kaeb Koopman said:

Im building a rig and i bought a 120gb ssd for fast windows booting. I intend on getting a 1 tb hdd in future. How should i setup my storage in bios to accomadate both drives. Ive seen talk about raid and ahci but im not sure whats best for my rig. 

1TB HDDs are poor value. For $10 more, you can find 2TB units these days. Keep that in mind  

 

Storage setup isn't done in the BIOS/UEFI aside from toggling between AHCI and RAID (AHCI is default, leave it that way). RAID is useful if you want either redundancy or a speed boost and it handled by a RAID controller. The little software RAID utility on consumer boards is a fake RAID, so I wouldn't bother. You'll sacrifice CPU cycles in the end.

[Kaeb Koopman]

2 hours ago, NelizMastr said:

1TB HDDs are poor value. For $10 more, you can find 2TB units these days. Keep that in mind  

 

Storage setup isn't done in the BIOS/UEFI aside from toggling between AHCI and RAID (AHCI is default, leave it that way). RAID is useful if you want either redundancy or a speed boost and it handled by a RAID controller. The little software RAID utility on consumer boards is a fake RAID, so I wouldn't bother. You'll sacrifice CPU cycles in the end.

What are the pros to ahci comapred to raid

[NelizMastr]

10 minutes ago, Kaeb Koopman said:

What are the pros to ahci comapred to raid

AHCI: Supports independant operation, no special drivers required as long as you run something newer than Windows XP and is recommended for general purpose use.

 

RAID: Can use multiple drives in arrays for either redundancy (protection from data loss) or speed boost (striping), does require special drivers and not using hardware RAID will use CPU cycles. Recommended if data integrity or speed are critical.