I have an MSI GT72, and it came with a 128gb ssd. I recently bought a 250gb ssd in attempts to create a raid 0. However, when I go to CREATE the raid in Intel Rapid Storage, the 128gb ssd only shows up as 30gb, because windows is on it. It shows as 119gb, but when I add both drives, the 128gb ssd adds only 30gb to the whole volume. Is this to be expected? How can I fix this?
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RAID 0 with boot drive problems
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drtweak
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- Sep 17, 2012
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First off
1) RAID 0 Has ZERO Fault Tolerance in otherwords one drive failes ALL YOUR DATA IS GONE. No way to recover as Half of the data is on one drive and the other half is on the other. So a 2 MB file has 1 MB one drive and 1 MB on the other. No way to recovery form that.
2) For ALL RAIDs the hard drives MUST be the SAME SIZE OR YOU WILL BE WASTING SPACE! You will NOT get a drive that is 128GB + 250GB you Will get a drive that is 128GB + 128GB since they MUST be the same size. Any left over YOU WILL BE UNABLE TO USE!
3) To setup ANY RAID Except for a Software RAID 1 which you need a Pro version of windows or better to do you will need to either Image the current Drive off to another drive or backup drive or reinstall windows after the RAID is made since it WILL WIPE ALL THE DRIVES
4) RAIDing SSD's honestly is a bit pointless. Only on the newest of Motherboards and RAID cards is TRIM supported on SSDs so you will have more wear and tear. There are a lot of articles talking about why NOT to do a RAID of SSD's unless you just happen to have two of them. Buying two of them and doing a RAID 0 of them is a waste of money since a single drive of that size will be cheaper.
Honestly Don't bother with RAID just buy one big SSD and put everything on that or is space is what you need get a HDD just for storage.
1) RAID 0 Has ZERO Fault Tolerance in otherwords one drive failes ALL YOUR DATA IS GONE. No way to recover as Half of the data is on one drive and the other half is on the other. So a 2 MB file has 1 MB one drive and 1 MB on the other. No way to recovery form that.
2) For ALL RAIDs the hard drives MUST be the SAME SIZE OR YOU WILL BE WASTING SPACE! You will NOT get a drive that is 128GB + 250GB you Will get a drive that is 128GB + 128GB since they MUST be the same size. Any left over YOU WILL BE UNABLE TO USE!
3) To setup ANY RAID Except for a Software RAID 1 which you need a Pro version of windows or better to do you will need to either Image the current Drive off to another drive or backup drive or reinstall windows after the RAID is made since it WILL WIPE ALL THE DRIVES
4) RAIDing SSD's honestly is a bit pointless. Only on the newest of Motherboards and RAID cards is TRIM supported on SSDs so you will have more wear and tear. There are a lot of articles talking about why NOT to do a RAID of SSD's unless you just happen to have two of them. Buying two of them and doing a RAID 0 of them is a waste of money since a single drive of that size will be cheaper.
Honestly Don't bother with RAID just buy one big SSD and put everything on that or is space is what you need get a HDD just for storage.
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