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| Thread ID: 112156 | 2010-08-26 05:39:00 | Raid 0 driver question | smithinator (15240) | Press F1 |
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| 1131757 | 2010-08-26 06:45:00 | I want to use raid to speed up apps/games/windows (which all of the tests ive seen have proved) as well as giving me the convenience of having one big drive in stead of two smaller drives, i have read many reviews and the fail rate is very low admittedly higher than just having separate drives but i believe it is still in an exceptable range | smithinator (15240) | ||
| 1131758 | 2010-08-26 06:49:00 | Just so long as you know that if one of the two drives dies so does your data. All of it! Unless of course you do regular backups. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1131759 | 2010-08-26 06:50:00 | i don't really have large amounts of important data and any data i do have is backed up in multiples :) | smithinator (15240) | ||
| 1131760 | 2010-08-26 06:54:00 | If you are using the Intel RAID Windows should detect it just fine. Also, for the person that suggested "press f6 during setup" that is no longer an option in Windows 7 (or Vista) once you get to the disk part of the setup process there is a button to click for additional storage drivers. |
Deimos (5715) | ||
| 1131761 | 2010-08-26 06:57:00 | If you are using the Intel RAID Windows should detect it just fine. Also, for the person that suggested "press f6 during setup" that is no longer an option in Windows 7 (or Vista) once you get to the disk part of the setup process there is a button to click for additional storage drivers. that was a direct paste from GB's site :blush: under their Win7/Vista drivers. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1131762 | 2010-08-27 01:30:00 | I want to use raid to speed up apps/games/windows (which all of the tests ive seen have proved) as well as giving me the convenience of having one big drive in stead of two smaller drives, i have read many reviews and the fail rate is very low admittedly higher than just having separate drives but i believe it is still in an exceptable range hmmn, the tests Ive seen show no worthwhile REAL WORLD improvement. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1131763 | 2010-08-27 02:39:00 | HI, I am going to set up a raid 0 config with two 500gb caviar black drives, my question is what driver will i need to install so that during windows setup it will recognize the array? i have windows vista 64bit and an upgrade to windows 7 64bit and my motherboard is a gigabyte p55a-ud4p. I found these on the gigabyte site but i don't know which raid driver to get. www.gigabyte.com P.s sorry for the basic question i have never attempted a raid config before :confused: I would have to advise against RAID 0....any performance gain from 2 HDD is negligible and you only double your chances of failure, if you want speed get a SSD, if you want RAID, go 5, or 10, or for fault tolerance 1... |
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