Are there any material guides on how to set up x2 1TB WD Blue Caviar RAID?

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I want to setup 2 1TB Caviar Blue's as a RAID storage system.
I don't want what is the correct way to do it from start to end.
Are there any guides or videos on this subject?
Can't find it on youtube?
Thanks
Jack
 
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Generally it is in the manual for your board.

What board is it?

Most intel boards you just hit a key combination like CNTR + I or similar on startup to set it up. If you want Windows in that volume, you will HAVE to reinstall for sure.

ALL DATA on the drives will be erased when setting up raid as well.

RAID0 = 2TB of storage Fast transfers almost no change to access times. Either drive failing will cause loss of ALL data since half is on each drive.
RAID1 = Only 1TB but a drive failure will not cause data loss.
 
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Hi there,
I got an Asus P8Z77-M. BTW, does RAID consume CPU cycles for dealing with hard disk RAID chores? According to you, there are no prominent benefits in using a RAID storage system.
I need speed and data security over space.
Jack
 
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You have almost no overhead with RAID0 and RAID1. Other modes like RAID5/6(stores data across 3 or more drives and with parity data[or 2 sets of parity data for raid6]) can tolerate a single drive failure and keep going. Clearly you want to replace the failed drive ASAP because it will be slower.

Hardware raid cards can take this load off the cpu.

With the 2 drives, wanting redundancy, you will want RAID1. It will not add speed, but at least if a drive fails, you will not loose data.

Remember, RAID is NOT a replacement for regular data backups. A file removed from your raid volume is removed from both drives.

Some info on RAID levels(more reading if you are interested.)

Standard RAID levels @ Wikipedia
 
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