I got 2 HD's that are about to reach 40,000 hours and die. Gonna get RAID1 setup

[tweakboy]

Hey all thanks for reading this and helping me. I have never used RAID1 so two identical drives mirror eachother thus your transfer rate becomes 150 when it was 50mbps and we know SSD are 250mbps. Im excited about using this tehcnology and doing RAID1 on two WDC black 500GB . Once I do this then Im going to restore my image I created with W7. Soo then I format these two drives after choosing to go RAID1 in BIOS. Then when install begins IM guessing both drives will get data written on it at same time ? Am I right on that. Im looking for a speed boost in HD ... cuz I really need it,, I use DAW this will help boot times and overall hd speed. Will the C and D become one C or will I see in windows the C and the D in raid1 and another seperate non raid drive E. Thanks for all your answers and input and commenting on this. GG and of course GB

 

[RebateMonger]

A RAID 1 array delivers essentially the same read/write speeds as a single hard drive. With the "right" controller, read speeds might be improved. But likely not with the controllers you'd be using.

Using a hardware-based RAID controller (either add-in or embedded), the RAID controller hides that there are two disks and shows only a single (RAID) disk to the OS.

 

[tweakboy]

Thank you monger for your answer, so I shouldnt basically RAID1 them drives just use them as single. I think read performance is crucial too noo ?

thanks buddz gb

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Have you thought this through?

If both drives will die when they reach their MTBF, and both are on exactly the same amount of time, since it's a RAID 1, won't they both fail at the same time? If that's the case, what's the point of a RAID 1?

 

[tweakboy]

Ive through ti through plenty and done research. rebatemonger says it will perform same as single HD. The whole point is to mirror and get it transferring from what I hear around 150mbps instead of say 50mbps .... Its worth it to me to just give away a hard drive to do RAID1 . cuz I do DAW . thanks for you and all replys,, keep em coming. whats holding me back and whats keeping me going. if performance is same pointless, if its faster then good point no. thx and gg and gb

 

[tweakboy]

Heres shot of two drives Im waiting to die on me any hour now LOL

other one got deleted, the 120gb wdc,,, this seagate has some life left,, but the WDC is about to go any hour now lol.,