Help Setting Up RAID 0 Array

Typically with all standard RAID setups, you have an option before Windows is called to take over the booting where you can set up and make changes to your RAID. This is usually either in the BIOS or right after the POST screen before Windows. It's usually pretty quick and involves an F-key to load the settings menu.

I don't have a RAID but as far as I know, you plug in your drives (in pairs or quads, etc etc) and load this settings menu and tell it what you want to create. It should fire away and build the RAID and life is good. Restart, pop in your Windows disk and off you go.

If you are mirroring your data (RAID 1), if one drive fails you are still alive, not gaining much in performance. If you stripe your disks (RAID 0) and create one fatty disk, if one fails, you're not so lucky, unless you do a RAID 5 (RAID 1s full of 0s, SORT OF like a full house in poker), there's more to lose with RAID 1.

HOWEVER, you will see the best performance from a RAID 0 at the cost of potential data loss without a proper backup.

Hi Desktop,

Jellyman described the various RAID configurations perfectly there.

I setup a RAID0 on my Gigabyte P55A-UD3R recently - this is with the AWARD BIOS. I found the motherboard manual was easy to follow, and the process was straight forward. I imagine there isn't much difference between your MOBO and mine.

I can give you a hand if you like. Let me know, and I'll type out the steps, and upload some photo's here to show you what the various screen options will look like in the BIOS. Its quite straight forward really.

Regards,
Golden

Golden said:

Hi Desktop,

Jellyman described the various RAID configurations perfectly there.

I setup a RAID0 on my Gigabyte P55A-UD3R recently - this is with the AWARD BIOS. I found the motherboard manual was easy to follow, and the process was straight forward. I imagine there isn't much difference between your MOBO and mine.

I can give you a hand if you like. Let me know, and I'll type out the steps, and upload some photo's here to show you what the various screen options will look like in the BIOS. Its quite straight forward really.

Regards,
Golden

Thanks! I appreciate it. I got all excite when I could use a poker reference

Since I don't have a RAID setup myself, I won't be of any more help from here on out. A guide as a general reference on 7F might not hurt to have

jelyman said:

A guide as a general reference on 7F might not hurt to have

Actually thats not a bad idea - I've been looking for something to write up for a tutorial/guide, but almost everything seems taken.

I'll give that a go actually, sounds like fun....