RAID-0 noob help

[jrgeoffrion]

The forum has been great in helping me build my first computer:

- AN8 SLI Premium
- 4Gb Corsair Value Select RAM
- AMD Athlon 4800+
- Two WD Caviar SE16 320Gb SATAII in NVRAID-1
- Windows XP Pro x64

My RAID-1 contains five partitions: System+Programs, Files 1, Files 2, Files 3, and Caches.

I would like to mirror the "System+Programs" as well as "Files 1" partitions on a separate internal single PATA drive ("System+Program" is about 25Gb and "Files 1" about 150Gb). The "System+Program" is critical to mirror in order to be back up and running if a drive fails and the "Files 1" is my livelihood (which is also backed up externally -- twice).

I've tried NVRAID but it seems to work only with SATA drives. I've also tried creating a Dynamic Disk in Computer Management and then mirroring the partition but the option "Add Mirror" is shaded.

Is there a way to create a RAID 0 of my two partitions that are in RAID 1 with the configuration above?

Thanks in advance for your help. I'm happy to provide any additional informaton that I may have forgotten to mention.

 

[psihog]

Normall, RAID-0 are built from scratch. I believe Windows XP disk management needs two dynamic disks and it won't work with systems partition. I'd leave your system the way it is with RAID-1 if you're only concerned with mirroring.

Also, RAID-0 is striping and it only boosts HDD performance. RAID-0 is not fault tolerant. RAID-1 is mirroring. you don't need to mirror "system and File1" partitions again if both of your WD drives are already setup as RAID-1. RAID-0+1 if you want both, but you'll need 2 more hdd rebuild from scratch... hope this help a little There are a lot of good websites with better info on setting up RAID.

 

[BadThad]

You MUST start from scratch to create a RAID0 setup, there's no way to "convert". Backup your data and start over using your RAID BIOS to create the RAID 0 array.

 

[jrgeoffrion]

I just realized I'm a total clown and inversed RAID-1 and RAID-0!! Arrggg...

The initial post should have read:

The forum has been great in helping me build my first computer:

- AN8 SLI Premium
- 4Gb Corsair Value Select RAM
- AMD Athlon 4800+
- Two WD Caviar SE16 320Gb SATAII in NVRAID-0
- Windows XP Pro x64

My RAID-0 contains five partitions: System+Programs, Files 1, Files 2, Files 3, and Caches.

I would like to mirror the "System+Programs" as well as "Files 1" partitions on a separate internal single PATA drive ("System+Program" is about 25Gb and "Files 1" about 150Gb). The "System+Program" is critical to mirror in order to be back up and running if a drive fails and the "Files 1" is my livelihood (which is also backed up externally -- twice).

I've tried NVRAID but it seems to work only with SATA drives. I've also tried creating a Dynamic Disk in Computer Management and then mirroring the partition but the option "Add Mirror" is shaded.

Is there a way to create a RAID-1 of my two partitions that are in RAID-0 with the configuration above?

Thanks in advance for your help. I'm happy to provide any additional informaton that I may have forgotten to mention.

The title did say noob...

 

[BadThad]

Originally posted by: jrgeoffrion
I just realized I'm a total clown and inversed RAID-1 and RAID-0!! Arrggg...

The initial post should have read:

The forum has been great in helping me build my first computer:

- AN8 SLI Premium
- 4Gb Corsair Value Select RAM
- AMD Athlon 4800+
- Two WD Caviar SE16 320Gb SATAII in NVRAID-0
- Windows XP Pro x64

My RAID-0 contains five partitions: System+Programs, Files 1, Files 2, Files 3, and Caches.

I would like to mirror the "System+Programs" as well as "Files 1" partitions on a separate internal single PATA drive ("System+Program" is about 25Gb and "Files 1" about 150Gb). The "System+Program" is critical to mirror in order to be back up and running if a drive fails and the "Files 1" is my livelihood (which is also backed up externally -- twice).

I've tried NVRAID but it seems to work only with SATA drives. I've also tried creating a Dynamic Disk in Computer Management and then mirroring the partition but the option "Add Mirror" is shaded.

Is there a way to create a RAID-1 of my two partitions that are in RAID-0 with the configuration above?

Thanks in advance for your help. I'm happy to provide any additional informaton that I may have forgotten to mention.

The title did say noob...

Same answer, lol. You just can't simply convert from RAID 0 to RAID 1 either. You'll have to start all the way over to get it done.

 

[jrgeoffrion]

Thanks for the response.

I actually don't want to convert my RAID-0 configuration but rather mirror two of the five partitions for back-up purposes.