Raid 0 Problems

[Ollii]

Hey, Now I have recently done a complete fresh instll of windows to much success (

) however there is one thing that is putting a dent in it all.

This would be the fact that on my last install of windows I put my two extra hard drives (they do not have the operating system on, thats my SSD) into Raid 0. However last time something was going wrong and so instead of Raiding them through the bios like normal I took the advice from people to raid them through windows and it worked.

Here is the problem though, due to me doing it in windows last time, they have actually carried on over and kept in raid 0 through windows with some non important memory (which I have now deleated)

However for this install I'd like to do things properly (in the manual) and raid my two extra Hard drives through the Bios rather than window.

Now I'm not too sure on how to do this, but I am in the process of formatting the Raid 0 drive and then I think I need to split up the volume again? once this is done both of the hard drives should be seperate again. Then I belive after I downloaded the drivers etc, I can put the HD's to raid on the Bios and do it that way.

Please could anyone confirm what I am saying above sounds correct and if I'm just talking rubbish (very possible) then please correct me

All other advice is very welcome as well and please let me know if you would do it a different way etc. Thanks.

 

[dugdiamond]

so what you asking if it is possible to RAID0 two drives (eg: 2x 1TB = 2TB RAID0) then split them into two raided volumes (2 drives allocations with 1TB each)

NO - this is not possible

when raiding drives they become one (with the volume size equal to the lowest capacity drive, multiplied by the number of drives)

tampering with the raid, by reducing (or increasing, if possible) volume/partition sizes, will result in the raid controller throwing an exception (raid failure). this would cause the array to be rebuilt.

only one drive can be resized at any one time. raid failure.

if you are looking for a short-cut of creating smaller raid arrays within raid arrays, it is not possible.

EDIT: so you are talking rubbish - lol

 

[Ollii]

so what you asking if it is possible to RAID0 two drives (eg: 2x 1TB = 2TB RAID0) then split them into two raided volumes (2 drives allocations with 1TB each)

NO - this is not possible

when raiding drives they become one (with the volume size equal to the lowest capacity drive, multiplied by the number of drives)

tampering with the raid, by reducing (or increasing, if possible) volume/partition sizes, will result in the raid controller throwing an exception (raid failure). this would cause the array to be rebuilt.

only one drive can be resized at any one time. raid failure.

if you are looking for a short-cut of creating smaller raid arrays within raid arrays, it is not possible.

EDIT: so you are talking rubbish - lol

erm I may of written something wrong there as i did not mean - "so what you asking if it is possible to RAID0 two drives (eg: 2x 1TB = 2TB RAID0) then split them into two raided volumes (2 drives allocations with 1TB each)"

All i was wondering was if I could get rid of my current raid setup which i did in my last windows and now redo it in the bios?

 

[S_I_N]

dont do it in bios its better in raid this way you can keep ur current bios settingsI think the issue you had last time was when changing to bios raid you undid ur achi for the ssd

 

[Ollii]

dont do it in bios its better in raid this way you can keep ur current bios settings

I have all ready reset everything to default etc so I don't mind where I do it.

Could you perhaps tell me the exact adantages and dissadvantages to both of them? Thanks

 

[S_I_N]

dont knot the advantages or dis of them other than what I said yesterday about not having to wait for the mobo raid bios and it being a tad faster in benches. But in reality speed on storage is a mute issue. The main thing is not having that extra step in bootup.

Control Panel\System and Security/Administrative Tool/create and format hard disk partitions just highlight the drive and select stripped and it will give the option to add the second drive and then assign drive letter and choose quick format

I'll be gone for a bit after this post gonna take my lil ones to breakfast and do a lil shopping cya when I get back