Run 2 SSD's as one and NOT RAID
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CircuitDaemon
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Here's a guide on what you want. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/36504/how-to-create-a-software-raid-array-in-windows-7/
But if you want to install the OS to that new partition, I believe it's not possible.
But if you want to install the OS to that new partition, I believe it's not possible.
It is called RAID 0 or striping. Taking two physical drives and using them as one logical volume in your operating system.
It is used to significantly increase speed. The link posted by CircuitDaemon above says it all.
The downside is that if one drive fails you lose everything. But with SSDs that risk is reduced.
It is used to significantly increase speed. The link posted by CircuitDaemon above says it all.
The downside is that if one drive fails you lose everything. But with SSDs that risk is reduced.
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It's not the same as RAID 0, it's called "spanning". Although both of them "sum" the capacity of each drive, RAID 0 will split the data every 64K, 128K, 256K blocks of data or whatever the controller supports. This means that neither drive will have a continuous piece of data and that's why it can increase speed, because it can write and read from both at the same time.
Spanning is different and can be done by software with most OS's, but also at a "RAID" (not actually RAID) level by hardware. This also lets you use the capacity of both drives, but it's written continuously on the first drive and when that one is full, it moves to the next one and so on.
But whatever his reason is, there's a way to do it and it may make sense under certain circumstances as it is a feature of both hardware and software.
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