Raid Storage

[Terrifictez85]

I am building a gaming pc for my younger brother and am using my old (working) hard drives 1x80gb and 2x 320gb

Is it possible to set up raid 0 on the 320gb but still using the 80gb for operating system. If so how do i go about doing this?? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Diablo]

Should be easy. Go into the bios, enable RAID. Go into the RAID setup at boot (something like ctrl-f2, it will say on the screen), enable RAID 0 on those two drives only. You may struggle with an 80GB OS drive. Remember you will lose everything on the 320 drives when you raid them. So backup.

 

[Terrifictez85]

Should be easy. Go into the bios, enable RAID. Go into the RAID setup at boot (something like ctrl-f2, it will say on the screen), enable RAID 0 on those two drives only. You may struggle with an 80GB OS drive. Remember you will lose everything on the 320 drives when you raid them. So backup.

Cheers for the reply, i did that and set the 80gb as bootable.

But when i boot up and locate the Raid setup my windows seven score is 5.2. But when i did the Raid by itself as bootable it is 6.3. Any reason why that is?

 

[Rastalovich]

If I understand you correctly...

When you run the Windows 7 performance thingy, I'm almost sure it just checks the drive the OS is on. So 5.2 for the 80g drive on its own and 6.3 for the Raid sounds about right.

5.2 for a single drive isn't that bad tbh. I'm sure I've had score of 4.x for a single drive.

You may squeeze some extra points by ensuring you have firstly the chipset drivers installed, and the sata/raid drivers. Out of the box, Windows 7 installs it's own, iirc. They're not bad, but not the best.

 

[Ya93sin]

imo HDDs are the easiest thing to score highly on, I have two laptops and each has bog standard HDDs with 5.7 and 5.9 scores respectively