MSI K8N Neo4 Plat - w/ Silicon Image's SATARAID5

[Mr Bob]

MB details:

Silicon Image's SATARAID5? (Software)
- RAID 0 or 1, RAID5, RAID10, and JBOD groups are supported
- Support up to 4 SATA devices connected to a single controller

Right now I have 2 250gb drives in a raid 1, connected to those Silicon raid ports. I want to switch that over to either raid 0, or just a single drive.

1) Can I switch it to raid 0, and still keep data intact? Right now it has 200gb worth of stuff, doing a raid 0 I would want the same 200gb worth of stuff, but have another 300gb for more stuff.
2) Can I just set things up without raid, but still using the Silicon Image SATARAID5 ports? It didn't seem like I was able to do a non raid config
3) How much of a performance increase will I see with my 250gbs on a raid 0? I know people say there is something, but anyone know what I might see? I don't like the fact that if one drive dies, I lose data on both, which makes me feel like I shouldn't do raid 0.

 

[Mr Bob]

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[Mr Bob]

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[Mr Bob]

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[malvare1]

Originally posted by: Mr Bob
MB details:

Silicon Image's SATARAID5? (Software)
- RAID 0 or 1, RAID5, RAID10, and JBOD groups are supported
- Support up to 4 SATA devices connected to a single controller

Right now I have 2 250gb drives in a raid 1, connected to those Silicon raid ports. I want to switch that over to either raid 0, or just a single drive.

1) Can I switch it to raid 0, and still keep data intact? Right now it has 200gb worth of stuff, doing a raid 0 I would want the same 200gb worth of stuff, but have another 300gb for more stuff.
2) Can I just set things up without raid, but still using the Silicon Image SATARAID5 ports? It didn't seem like I was able to do a non raid config
3) How much of a performance increase will I see with my 250gbs on a raid 0? I know people say there is something, but anyone know what I might see? I don't like the fact that if one drive dies, I lose data on both, which makes me feel like I shouldn't do raid 0.

1.Ok once you switch from raid 1 to raid 0 all data will be lost.
2.pretty sure you can still use the channels for a single drive by disabling the raid feature on your bios for those channels.
3. the benefit of raid 0 vs raid 1 is that now you will increase your throughout speed by at least 1.75 times if not double (on some drives) as you have it in raid1. ussually people like me that use raid 0 have a spare drive to store important data on a separate channel.

my setup is 2x 250 raid 0 with 2 partitions 1 for OS 1 for storage in case I have to reload OS and 1x250 for important file (movies, work,music proggys etc.)

hope this helps

 

[Mr Bob]

I didn't want to do raid 0 because if one drive died, all data is then lost. I was able to do setup something so that it would let me have single drives off of the raid sata ports.