[ajfriese5]

Need to know never done it before i need to identical harddrives right?

 

[steveo42024]

Yes you need identical drives and raid o is used for faster loading times and file transfers. Raid 1 is more for security in case one of the drives fails you won't lose anything.

 

[ajfriese5]

So raid 0 would give me better overall performance then is it hard to setup do i have to reinstall windows?

 

[busa]

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Originally Posted by ajfriese5 Need to know never done it before i need to identical harddrives right?

Yes and no...
Raid 0....2 same size hard drives combined. Space is combined and performance is boosted.
Raid 1....2 same size hard drives combined. Space is 1/2 of combined total of drives. Data is copied to both drives and is good for data security. No performance increase.
Using different size drives can be done...but it will show as 2 of whatever the smaller drive is and lose the extra space.

do i have to reinstall windows?

yes you do.

 

[steveo42024]

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Originally Posted by ajfriese5 So raid 0 would give me better overall performance then is it hard to setup do i have to reinstall windows?

Its not that hard to setup. Yeah you'll have to reinstall your windows.

 

[ajfriese5]

That's cool i just ordered a new drive going to do it next week hope i don't mess it all up!!!!!!!

 

[VulcanDragon]

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Originally Posted by busa Raid 1....2 same size hard drives combined. Space is 1/2 of combined total of drives. Data is copied to both drives and is good for data security. No performance increase.

There should be a performance increase on read operations because the reads can be split across the multiple disks.