Thinking of raiding 2 storage drives after the instal of windows 8

[TR1GGERHAPPYSAM]

Hello all,

 

At the moment i have Windows 8.1 installed on my pc, it has a MSI Z77A GD65 mobo and a samsung 830 ssd.

 

I also have a WD green with all photos, steam games and other stuff on it.

 

I have been thinking for a while about using built in raid controller on the motherboard and buying a couple of drives for photograph backups, but i have a few questions.

 

- ahci mode is enabled, will changing this to raid break anything ?

 

- how good is the onboard raid - i really dont want to get a expensive raid card like linus !

 

- if the mobo dies how will i get my data back ?

 

- has anyone had used onboard raid with this motherboard and can you provide any pointers?

 

Thanks Guys (and gals) !

 

Sam

[X1XNobleX1X]

Hello all,

 

At the moment i have Windows 8.1 installed on my pc, it has a MSI Z77A GD65 mobo and a samsung 830 ssd.

 

I also have a WD green with all photos, steam games and other stuff on it.

 

I have been thinking for a while about using built in raid controller on the motherboard and buying a couple of drives for photograph backups, but i have a few questions.

 

- ahci mode is enabled, will changing this to raid break anything ?

 

- how good is the onboard raid - i really dont want to get a expensive raid card like linus !

 

- if the mobo dies how will i get my data back ?

 

- has anyone had used onboard raid with this motherboard and can you provide any pointers?

 

Thanks Guys (and gals) !

 

Sam

1) Shouldn't

2) Good enough, for the general consumer

3) You would have to buy the same motherboard and configure the raid. 

[TR1GGERHAPPYSAM]

1) Shouldn't

2) Good enough, for the general consumer

3) You would have to buy the same motherboard and configure the raid. 

thanks  

[X1XNobleX1X]

thanks

I would probably wait for other peoples responses. Although I own a raid 0, I'm not that knowledgeable.