Raid 0 Questions

[j3wcl@w]

Hi i have just bought built a dream rig and i have a quick question i have x2 western digital raptor's 74 gb setup in a raid 0 array but i think that you need 3 hd's to do this because in windows it has named my storage drive c drive and will not boot without it even though i haven't specified it as a raid drive in the bios plz help?

 

[Elbatrop1]

RAID 0 only requires 2 drives to work.

When you go to install Windows, does it recognize each drive? It should recognize your RAID array as one 74GB drive and your storage drive as whatever size it is.

 

[reckliss]

you mean 148gb drive

 

[Elbatrop1]

you mean 148gb drive

No, I mean 74GB. You must have RAID-0 (striped) confused with a spanned volume.

If this were a spanned volume then it would look like one drive letter at 148GB.

 

[Ronnie]

why would it say 74GB?

with RAID 0 you dont lose any storage space it just recognizes your two drives as one so it should say 148GB

 

[Sora]

RAID 0? Hrm RAID 0 is 2xsmallest drive. So if you have 2 WD 74GB raptors then it would be 148GB.

 

[saltynay]

its actually smallest times 1.5 if you have one larger then the other .

Matt

 

[Elbatrop1]

Oops! I was under a wrong impression. It should be 148GB.

 

[reckliss]

lol

 

[saltynay]

it will be 148gb as its two 74 gb but if they had 80gb and 120gb raid would still work and will show 200gb array.

Matt