Running RAID 0 on 1 SATA Hard Drive

[danklumpp]

My brother works for CAT ($:evil:$) and he has a computer with one hard drive running in RAID configuration. Is it possible to run one hard drive in RAID 0 for increased performance? If so, how?

 

[imported_rod]

No. A RAID requires more than one disk.

You must have two or more disks for a RAID(0 or 1).
You need at least three disks for a RAID 5.
You need four disks for a RAID 0+1.

RoD

 

[Quasmo]

wth... the definition of RAID is a Redundant Array of Independent Disks. INDEPENDANT DISKS.

 

[corkyg]

Contrary to popular opinion, it is not only possible but essential with some motherboards. My Asus P4Pe has two SATA ports. They are enabled or disabled in BIOS, but combined with RAID. You can't have SATA w/o RAID on this mobo. So, it loads and runs the RAID menu before loading Windows, and with 1 HDD, it forces RAID 0. Technically, that is not an array, but it is the only way SATA ports can be enabled on this mobo.

So, that is how I run my data drive - an 80 GB single drive as "RAID 0."

If I do not use RAID, the SATA drive cannot be seen. In this case, performance is irrelevant.