Setting up RAID0

[StrongBlackWoman]

Planning on buying a Blackmagic Intensity Pro capture card to record video games and I will need more storage space for the huge file sizes, I've been told that getting an external HDD won't work and that I need to get two hard drives and set them up in a RAID, I watched this tutorial http://youtu.be/rgo0OPSw9_E but I still have no clue as to what I'm doing, when this person says I need to get two hard drives, do I need to buy two hard drives on top of my existing hard drive? or just one? will setting up a RAID erase the data on my current HDD so I will need to reinstall my OS? I'm sure there are more things I need to know but I don't know what they are to ask, so if someone could explain in detail the whole RAID setup so that I know what I'm doing that would be really helpful,

Thanks.

 

[SparkleDJackson]

Im pretty sure the blak magic intensity pro doesnt record 1080p properly. I read it somewhere a long time ago thr although it sats records 1080p its not compatible with the 1080p signal from 360/ps3

 

[StrongBlackWoman]

Im pretty sure the blak magic intensity pro doesnt record 1080p properly. I read it somewhere a long time ago thr although it sats records 1080p its not compatible with the 1080p signal from 360/ps3

Yeah not sure of this myself, it says it records 1080p 30fps, whether it is compatible or not I don't know, but even so I want the BMIP, I play in 720p anyway because I use a Hauppauge HD PVR, one of the main reasons I want the BMIP is for the HDMI, the Hauppauge only uses component, and because the Blackmagic can record uncompressed which is much higher quality than the Hauppauge's maximum 13.5 Mbps compressed quality, so 1080p would just be a bonus for me really.

 

[SPS]

RAID is not essential - but the read speed will determine which formats you can play back in real time.

You can buy two identical HDDs and set them up in RAID0 without reinstalling. (I think)

 

[SparkleDJackson]

Yea my bro has the hauppauge aswell but if it doesnt record 1080p theres not much point in the upgrade imo. I would love one myself because he plays on my tv on my xbox and i payed a fortune for a 1080p tv o play games on but the pvr makes it 720 which winds me up something shocking i just wish there was a product on the market that didnt cost an arm and a leg to let us make the most out of our equipment. If they can make 4k displays why can they put out something that records 1080p.

 

[StrongBlackWoman]

You can buy two identical HDDs and set them up in RAID0 without reinstalling.

If you wouldn't mind, could you please explain how I would go about doing this, and are there any HDDs you would recommend?

 

[StrongBlackWoman]

I would love one myself because he plays on my tv on my xbox and i payed a fortune for a 1080p tv o play games on but the pvr makes it 720

I'm certain there is an HDMI to Component adapter you can buy that means you will be able to play in 1080p while recording in 720p with the HD PVR, I'm not sure where you are from but you can get one for about £40 I think, I can try and find you a link if you're interested?

 

[SPS]

If you wouldn't mind, could you please explain how I would go about doing this, and are there any HDDs you would recommend?

Depends on how much space you want. Possibly 2x500GB Western Digital Blues?

What motherboard do you have?

 

[SPS]

There's a guide that has been stickied to look at:

http://forum.overclock3d.net/index.php?/topic/30806-guide-how-to-set-up-a-motherboard-based-raid-array/

 

[StrongBlackWoman]

Depends on how much space you want. Possibly 2x500GB Western Digital Blues?

What motherboard do you have?

I think I should probably get 2TB to be on the safe side, and I think my motherboard is a GIGABYTE GA-73PVM-S2H.

 

[StrongBlackWoman]

There's a guide that has been stickied to look at:

http://forum.overclock3d.net/index.php?/topic/30806-guide-how-to-set-up-a-motherboard-based-raid-array/

That's the same tutorial I linked in the OP, I watched it but I'm still very unclear as to what I'm doing.

 

[Diablo]

Install both new drives into your computer (connect the SATA cables to the motherboard) and plug the power into the drives. Then power on the computer, hit del to enter bios, set the SATA mode to RAID, then hit f10 to save and quit. When the PC boots again, hit the key you need to to enter the RAID setup area. This may be F10 or alt-H or something like that. Check your motherboard manual.

Then when in that menu, select the two drives you want to use (the new ones), and set them to RAID 0. This is assuming you don't want to reinstall, as normally it is not possible to go from AHCI to RAID 0 without a reinstall and are therefore keeping your windows partition on the old drive.

For this you will need two hard drives, of equal size and performance. It will be a bit of a faff, and to be honest, 1080p or whatever, will not saturate a modern hard drive hence RAID 0 is unnecessary.

 

[SparkleDJackson]

I'm certain there is an HDMI to Component adapter you can buy that means you will be able to play in 1080p while recording in 720p with the HD PVR, I'm not sure where you are from but you can get one for about £40 I think, I can try and find you a link if you're interested?

sure that would be great cheers broseph

 

[StrongBlackWoman]

sure that would be great cheers broseph

Here is a UK link http://www.amazon.co.uk/Neet®-Component-Converter-Supports-Lifetime/dp/B002C7CCJ6

If you aren't in the UK then I'm sure you can just Google 'Neet HDMI to Component adapter' and find it somewhere.

 

[StrongBlackWoman]

Install both new drives into your computer (connect the SATA cables to the motherboard) and plug the power into the drives. Then power on the computer, hit del to enter bios, set the SATA mode to RAID, then hit f10 to save and quit. When the PC boots again, hit the key you need to to enter the RAID setup area. This may be F10 or alt-H or something like that. Check your motherboard manual.

Then when in that menu, select the two drives you want to use (the new ones), and set them to RAID 0. This is assuming you don't want to reinstall, as normally it is not possible to go from AHCI to RAID 0 without a reinstall and are therefore keeping your windows partition on the old drive.

For this you will need two hard drives, of equal size and performance. It will be a bit of a faff, and to be honest, 1080p or whatever, will not saturate a modern hard drive hence RAID 0 is unnecessary.

I don't mind reinstalling my OS, I have an installation disc so it isn't a problem, would you recommend reinstalling? and if so, would I select all 3 drives to set to RAID 0?

And when you say "1080p or whatever, will not saturate a modern hard drive" what does that mean? and also "RAID 0 is unnecessary.", does this mean I could just buy an external HDD and plug it into my PC and use that without having to set up my PC for RAID?

 

[S_I_N]

as diablo said for creating raid but if its on the non opsys drive you can also create a partition using 2 drives thru disk management in windows. And alot of times its a tad faster than mobo raid for storage drives. Just go to control panel >system and security>administrative tools>create and format hard disk partitions. and create a spanned drive

 

[StrongBlackWoman]

as diablo said for creating raid but if its on the non opsys drive you can also create a partition using 2 drives thru disk management in windows. And alot of times its a tad faster than mobo raid for storage drives. Just go to control panel >system and security>administrative tools>create and format hard disk partitions. and create a spanned drive

Sorry to be a nuisance but could you please translate it to something a novice could understand? it's like reading another language

 

[S_I_N]

ok start menu select control panel select system and security see administrative tool under that you'll see create and format hard disk partitions select one of the two new drives right click it from drop down menu select spanned rives then add second new drive go thru the steps to create it then format whallah ur done

 

[StrongBlackWoman]

ok start menu select control panel select system and security see administrative tool under that you'll see create and format hard disk partitions select one of the two new drives right click it from drop down menu select spanned rives then add second new drive go thru the steps to create it then format whallah ur done

And this is an alternative method to setting up RAID? I can just buy two new hard drives and do this?

 

[Diablo]

That is an alternative. However, it is not necessary. You are not going to be writing enough information to that disk to justify RAID 0. 1080p runs at around 30MBps max, (absolute max), and a modern hard drive will happily maintain 110MBps throughput. Thus you would be using around 30% of the maximum speed. However an external drive on USB 2 will be saturated at 24MBps, which may not be fast enough. Get a 2TB internal drive, install internally and run the videos on to that.

If you put the OS onto a RAID 0 disk (with three disks in), then if one of those disks goes wrong, you lose all of your operating system. RAID 0 is really bad news for data integrity because it massively increases the chance that you will lose your information.

P.S. opsy = operating system = windows

If you want to reinstall that's your option, but for me, that would take minimum 72 hours to get everything reinstalled, transfer my documents back etc.