A Quick Question about RAID 0

[Shando]

I'm interested on RAID 0ing 2 250gb sata drives, but I only have the cash to buy one at the moment. I was wondering, if i went ahead and installed my OS etc on the drive i'm buying first, would I still be able to set it up in RAID with the other drive when I get it, while still keeping everything I have installed? Thanks

~Shando

 

[b1gapl]

No I don't think so, you would have to format and install a fresh copy. Because with RAID 0 it's like interlacing information spread over the two HDs.

 

[Shando]

That's what I was thinking. Thanks for the quick response!

 

[turtile]

You must reformat to set up a RAID 0.

 

[Deathawk]

I have a 160 gb IDE drive, and a 15 gb IDE drive, can I run RAID 0? 1 is maxtor, 1 is samsung... How would I install the RAID0 at installation?

Sorry for hijacking thread

 

[b1gapl]

You would have to have two of the same size HDs to do RAID 0.

 

[R1C0CH3T]

they dont have to be the same size, but if one is 15 gb and the other is 150 gb, it scales the 150gb one down to 15gb. so then there's two 15gb drives

 

[Ste]

they dont have to be the same size, but if one is 15 gb and the other is 150 gb, it scales the 150gb one down to 15gb. so then there's two 15gb drives

True. But the total Space for RAID 0 would be 30 GB's: if he was doing RAID 1 with a 15GB and a 150GB then it would be 15GB total storage.
Just further explanation

 

[Deathawk]

I have another 15gb HDD, but it's RPM is 5400.. IDE... what can I do with that?

 

[SpannerMagnet]

Would someone explain in an easy to swallow way, what RAID 0 is?

Just 2 or 3 lines would do