Seting up Raid 0 On Asus G750JS-DB-72CA

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Hi there,

I'm wondering how I would go about installing Intel Rapid Storage Drivers for my Dual 750GB hard drive in my laptop (http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX51916).

I am installing from an ASUSG750 System image since I do not have a Windows 8.1 Installation Disk.

From what I know on Windows 7, In order to be able to configure Raid properly, i must load rapid storage drivers from a USB during the Win7 installation phase.

Does anyone know of a solution?

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I would recommend against installing them in RAID....Windows 8 has a new feature called "Storage Spaces" that is a bit more reliable....

http://www.howtogeek.com/109380/how-to-use-windows-8s-storage-spaces-to-mirror-combine-drives/

Installing RAID on your operating system drive leads to twice the chance of losing your data.....
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I would recommend against installing them in RAID....Windows 8 has a new feature called "Storage Spaces" that is a bit more reliable....

http://www.howtogeek.com/109380/how-to-use-windows-8s-storage-spaces-to-mirror-combine-drives/

Installing RAID on your operating system drive leads to twice the chance of losing your data.....
 
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Should be set to RAID0 by default, total disk size would be 1.5 TB in that case.
Storage 2x 750GB 7,200RPM HDD w/ Raid0 Support

If not, it will be a feature you need to enable in the BIOS. Not sure I really recommend it, though. You should back up your personal files daily. If one drive fails, all your data is lost.
 
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Not sure but most likely since there is a setting in BIOS that allows me to switch from AHCI to RAID 0
 
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This seems to work differently from raid and I'm uncomfortable with using something that not many people use...
 
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Nope, It comes un raided unfortunately. There is a feature in bios to switch from AHCI to RAID 0 but im not sure how i would go about installing the Intel rapidstorage raid drivers since im installing from a system image not an install disk.
 
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I am an IT guy - I run many servers that utilize RAID configurations. When I configure a server - I never utilize software RAID components, nor do I utilize "onboard" RAID solutions.....I purchase a RAID card that is specifically matched to the server - and generally they run around $500 - $1000 for the card. When I order the drives, if it is a 10 drive array, I order 15 drives. Over the next 3-5 years that the array is on a production box, I usually replace 3-4 drives.

It looks like that is a costly solution - but you can't afford to pay people to sit around waiting for you to bring the system back online from a backup. There are problems with RAID - not just the price.

Based on those factors, I would never suggest utilizing RAID at home unless it was the only solution available (i.e. running Windows 7 Media Center, you need 8TB of drive space - because WMC will only recognize a single drive for recording, the solution is to put two 4TB drives in RAID).

Windows 8.1 has improved the storage of data tremendously.....for a home use solution, it is a lot better than RAID for typical solutions....and it is built into the operating system.....

I have 5 computers at home - none of them have RAID installed. 16 servers at work - 14 have RAID arrays. On workstations - none of them have RAID arrays.
 
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I doubt you would need to, Windows should just recognize it as one drive. Try it, won't hurt. It's very rare that Windows doesn't recognize the RAID on a motherboard, normally you require a driver for a PCI RAID card.

If not, just find the product's website and download the driver from there. I will presume it's preinstalled with the Windows copy.

If you switch it to raid, all the data will be lost. I'm a little surprised it's advertised as RAID0, but doesn't come pre-setup.
 
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