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RAID 0 Dilemma .. please help :) thanks

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churchdoesmatter

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yes, i know.. please excuse my name.. i am not a kid.

Okay, here's the deal.. I have (2) Maxtor 120GB 7200RPM ATA 133 HD's

One of the hard drives are formatted / wiped out
The other hard drive has data (backup) i want to keep

Here's the problem:

I want to set up a RAID 0, and i want the main OS to be on the formatted hard drive along with my existing data
Is there any way possible I could do this?
If it is possible , can someone walk me through?
If it is not possible, I guess I would have to back up the data to another source and then format the two hard drives?

I have knowledge about computers, except in the RAID field.


1) my mobo is a Epox 8RDA+
2) cpu = barton 2500+
3) ram = Geil 512 PC3200 ram
4) i'm using a PCI raid card.. the siliconimage one


Thanks for your input
 
when you setup a raid 0 array it combines two hard drives and it shows up as one drive in an OS.
you have to format the drives when the array is made(creating the array formats for you, you dun have to do it ur self)

this is what i've learned when i set up my array thru the onboard chip
 
nice heheh.. so yeah.. i'll backup the data, and ill start raiding soon... umm.. lets see i stilll have one more question..

okay, so i bought the PCI Raid card (silicon image brand) from Newegg.com .. ,

the drivers come in CDROM form.. the manual, or should i say little piece of paper LACKS instructions for doing a Raid 0 .. I was wondering if you could provide me with some step by step guides or something.

Installed PCI card w/ 2 Raided Hard drives .. how would i proceed next?
 
RAID 0 can be partitioned just fine. But backing up your data onto one of the non-OS partitions won't help if you have a drive fail.
You can have 20 partitions on a pair of RAID 0 drives... but if one of those drives fail, all 20 partitions are sunk also. :Q
If you need redundancy, set your drives up in a RAID 1 array.
 
Originally posted by: Blain
RAID 0 can be partitioned just fine. But backing up your data onto one of the non-OS partitions won't help if you have a drive fail.
You can have 20 partitions on a pair of RAID 0 drives... but if one of those drives fail, all 20 partitions are sunk also. :Q
If you need redundancy, set your drives up in a RAID 1 array.
Click to expand...

That's right, that is why I have my old 40 gb hard connected to one of my IDE int, for backing up the important stuff. Althouhg my Soyo Dragon 400 RAID works very good when I used to have a RAID card, the system failed every few weeks.
 
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