Is it possible to have 4 hardrives...

[megamindstorm101]

In windows is it possible to have 4 hardrives where I would make 2 groups of 2 stripped array and then have those 2 groups mirror each other.

So say I have 4 1tb hardrives. Is it possible to go into windows hardrive management and setup the drives so that it will show up as 2 2tb hardrives. And than after that have it setup so that those 2 2tb hardrives will mirror each other.

Basically using 4 hardrives can I have it show up on my computer as a single 2tb hardrive and have it being automatically backed up on another 2 hardrives?

 

[Josh Weston]

Raid10

 

[megamindstorm101]

Thank you for the exact Raid number. I was reading around raid 1-5 and was just confused out of my mind.

 

[Josh Weston]

No problemo. Neither RAID0 or RAID1 are particularly controller intensive, so I can't see why RAID10 would be. So, running the 4 dives off of your motherboard's RAID controller should work just fine.
I only mention this as you mentioned RAID5, which doesn't run well on an onboard controller due to the calculations needed.

 

[megamindstorm101]

Yeah I was just trying to figure out which raid was the one I was looking for so I started looking up all of them. I have no idea what half of them do.


Is it possible to do this using the windows manager? Like right now I have 2 1tb drives in a backup raid but I just set it up using windows manager because I have my os on an ssd. So when I first install windows there is nothing on my hardrives.

 

[Josh Weston]

RAID is generally set up pre-boot, in the BIOS/UEFI or similar. At least, that's what I did to set up my drives.
What are the rest of your specs?

Edit: upon some further research, I see that you can indeed set up RAID from within the OS - my apologies, I was just going by my past experience. I see that both RAID0 and RAID1 are options given within 'Computer management', but RAID10 is not. Whether you could simply create two separate RAID1 arrays and then RAID0 them together? - I don't know.

 

[megamindstorm101]

Well I have setup raid pre-OS before so no problem knowing what to do there

Specs aren't final yet I am still working on it. When I get home I will post my current specs and my planned specs. In 4-8 weeks im building an entirely new rig and selling mine for pretty much the same price I bought it for

 

[Lollipop]

Raid10

Isn't it Raid 1+0, and not Raid 10?

 

[Josh Weston]

It was my belief that they were synonymous. What's the difference?

 

[yassarikhan786]

Isn't it Raid 1+0, and not Raid 10?

It's RAID 10.

EDIT: Josh is right.

 

[Lollipop]

Ok.

 

[airdeano]

in some days it was also RAID 1+0 (hence the 1 and 0) a stripped array with a
mirror with no parity drive (hence the calculations).

airdeano