April 1, 200620 yr I am planning on setting up a RAID 0 configuration with my two hard drives. I currently have a Western Digital 250MB SATA (with FS9 and all my add-ons installed) and I have purchased another identical drive.So, apologies if this is a stupid question, but once I have added the second drive with RAID 0, will I have to re-install FS9 again to get the benefits?ThanksMalcolm
April 2, 200620 yr In order to enable Raid you will have to format and re-install XP from scratch starting with your Raid Drivers..-PaulLiquid CooledAMD 4000 San Diego2 Gigs Kingston Corsair XMS CL2Dual 7800 GTX 24 inch widescreen dual 19 inch LCDRaid-0 Have a Wonderful Day -Paul Solk
April 2, 200620 yr You will, indeed, need to reinstall the OS. Here's a link to an article which may help explain installing RAID: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=830&page=1 . One other thing to remember, Raid 0 is not redundant and the loss of one drive will result in the loss of the data on both drives. If I were doing it I'd forget about RAID altogether (the benefits are questionable anyway) and use the new drive as a repository for an image of the primary drive. Having a backup is, IMNSHO, always better than just doing things faster.Doug Intel 10700K @ 5.1Ghz, Asus Hero Maximus motherboard, Noctua NH-U12A cooler, Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB 3200 MHz RAM, RTX 2060 Super GPU, Cooler Master HAF 932 Tower, Thermaltake 1000W Toughpower PSU, Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit, 100TB of disk storage. Klaatu barada nickto.
April 4, 200620 yr Excellent RAID link Doug. I had a RAID 0 config on a new computer system. Less than 6 months after purchasing, the 2nd hard drive in the config crashed and I lost everything. I never thought a hard drive would fail so soon but it happened. I got a replacement hard drive from Dell but I no longer have the RAID 0 config. Just two large SATA hard drives. I really haven't noticed any decrease in performance but the RAID article does show a RAID 0 config is a bit faster. If you do chose RAID 0, make sure you back up your most valuable data regularly.Jim Young
April 4, 200620 yr If I were doing it I'd forget about RAID altogether (the benefits are questionable anyway) and use the new drive as a repository for an image of the primary drive.And here's a bit of proof: http://faq.storagereview.com/SingleDriveVsRaid0My pick would be to place the Page File on it's own partition (won't get as fragged over time, and easier to defrag when it does) on the second drive.Greg
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