Raid 1 Q

[BW86]

Ok. Long story short, my friend just got 2 raptors and wants to raid0 them so hes giving me his other HDD(Same HDD as mine). I wanted to know if I could put this new HDD into my machine after i format it and make a raid array. Am i going to have to reformat my HDD before I can raid these two together, or can I just plug the new HDD in and raid it with the existing files on my HDD. I never set up a raid array so help would be great

 

[CheesePoofs]

I think on nforce 3 boards you have to reformat both drives, because it has to split the data between the two drives and can't do that on the fly.

 

[grohl]

'Fraid you're gonna have to reformat. No other way around it that I know of.

p.s. its not worth it

 

[DaveSimmons]

p.s. its not worth it

yes, click the "Storage" tab at the top of the page and read the Raptors in RAID article, which also covers RAID for 7,200 RPM drives.

 

[Rike]

For your friend. The link refered to above.

Standard reading for anyone who wants to RAID 0 on a desktop.

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

p.s. its not worth it

yes, click the "Storage" tab at the top of the page and read the Raptors in RAID article, which also covers RAID for 7,200 RPM drives.

i only see raptors in raid-0, I'm talking about raid-1 for myself