Want to setup Raid 0

[Deleted member 67555]

Want to setup raid 0 with an existing system,will be upgrading OS in 2.5 months and want to setup raid with existing Os with Raid 0,need to know what to do, be detailed as possible please

 

[slyfox2151]

is the OS going to be on the raid or on a separate HDD?



best option would be to have the OS on the raid 0 to avoid any problems down the road... since you only have one sata controller...

i could not install my os onto a separate HDD with all 3 drives connected to the same controller with my raid 0 ... i had to move my OS drive to the jmicron controller.


as for the actual setup of your raid... assuming you are only connecting 2 hdd's to your controller.. it will be simple. (checking up on your bios/south bridge config... will post how to set it up in a few)


Step 1

if your only using 2 hdd's to create a raid 0, connect both drives .. one to sata port 4... the other to sata port 5.

Step 2
boot into your bios and go into "intergrated peripherals".. then chainge the following settings.
ensure stat controller is "enabled". then change the setting for "stat Port 4/5 to "as raid type".

save your bios and exit

Step 3

reboot your pc, and let it post. it will then get to your raid screen and tell you no raid is definded... go ahead and press ctrl-F to enter raid setup.
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Step 4

once in raid setup. press <2> to create a raid.
1. Under the RAID Mode section, press the <SPACE> key to select RAID 0.
2. Set the Stripe Block size. 64 KB is the default.
3. Under the Drives Assignments section, press the up or down arrow key to highlight a drive.
4. Press the <SPACE> key or <Y>to change the Assignment option to Y. This action adds the drive
to the disk array. The Total Drv section will show the number of disks assigned.
5. Press <Ctrl>+<Y> keys to save the information. The window below will appear.
7. Press <Ctrl>+<Y> to set the capacity of the RAID array or press other keys to set the array to its
maximum capacity.
8. After the creation is complete, the screen will return to Define LD Menu where you will see the
newly-created array.
9. Press <Esc> to return to Main Menu and <Esc> to exit the raid setup.

Step 5

from here your ready to install windows... you may need to put your motherboard disk in during setup to add the drivers for your raid if it cannot find it.

 

[Asylum]

You will have to do a fresh install of windows.
First off install both hard drives.
Then boot into bios and change hard drive settings to raid.
Then choose raid 0
It may ask you for raid drivers for your motherboad so have them ready on disk or flash drive.
After that just install OS.

 

[Deleted member 67555]

can you back up files to have them installed once the OS is reinstalled,such as game files, like my CoD WaW files

 

[vega22]

set all the bios options to raid press f10 then enter. when it restarts you will get another screen after post during which you need to press ctrl and i (or g not 100% of the top of my head) to get into your array setup in here you can set the size of your partition, size of the stripe and format it.

once you have done that you will be able to do a clean install of vista just as normal.


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lol 666 post

 

[slyfox2151]

yes, you can backup any NON OS files.... he also wanted a detailed answer guys.

 

[vega22]

if you have an extra drive you could use ghost (or the likes of) to copy the whole drive across to the array once you have set it up.

 

[Deleted member 67555]

Ok should i back items to external drive,or keep on drives, or use external hd for backup then format hard drives 2 (32mb cache wdblack500allls), select raid in bios,reboot enter raid setup, and install OS What size strip should i use

 

[Deleted member 67555]

if you have an extra drive you could use ghost (or the likes of) to copy the whole drive across to the array once you have set it up.

sounds nice explain

 

[Deleted member 67555]

Ok i have LIVE ONE CARE, I cxan do a backup with that, will i be able to use my game profiles after the reinstall this is my biggest concern

 

[slyfox2151]

as long as everything goes back where it was before (game/profile saves.. ect) everything will work like nothing changed.

as for stripe size... i use 128kb... highest my chipset supports. gives the highest speed for large files... but wastes more space for small files.... u might want to read up on stripe size... or you could just stick with 64kb... there is not a huge differance.



just so you know. creating a raid will complealtly wipe anything on either drives so you must backup to an external drive/dvd/usb or a drive that wont be added to the raid.


.. you should be able to backup your whole user folder where most savegames/profiles are stored.. and replace it after the reinstall of windows.

 

[Deleted member 67555]

Well I just got Raid setup with the Gigabyte 780g, and here are my first #'s

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Going to getting a 790 tomorrow but wanted to see it now
that's a 62mb/s gain from a single WD Black 500ALLS
I've now ran every test on HD TUNE and It looks like a 60% gain across the board from 512bit to 8mb/s all test's were slightly under or over 60%
Is that about the average gain with RAID0?.....

 

[thebeephaha]

RAID0 unless you have one exceptional controller is never 100% efficient. There is always overhead.

60% increase is pretty good for onboard raid.

 

[Deleted member 67555]

RAID0 unless you have one exceptional controller is never 100% efficient. There is always overhead.

60% increase is pretty good for onboard raid.

Thanks, I was hoping someone would give an answer like that