How To Install Two Raid-0 Configs on 4 HD

[rrvolk]

How would one go about doing doing this?

I have four Hard Drives. I want to make 2 raid-0 configurations.

For Example:


Disk-1
---------Raid 0 : Drive C:
Disk-2



Disk-3
---------Raid 0 : Drive D:
Disk-4


I am a bit confused on how to go about doing this.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

 

[mford66215]

The real question is, why?

I mean, sure - there's instruction out there (came with the motherboard/raid card) that will explain HOW to do what you want, but why would you? All raid 0 gives you is increased disk space on a drive letter at the risk of losing all your data when one of the disks fails.

Sure, there can be a slight performance boost in some areas, but you can do better than that by having your OS and data partitions be on different disk subsystems (different disk on different controllers).

Can you list what raid controller/motherboard and OS you're running on so we can give instructions how...and while your at it, maybe a reason why you'd want to do this?

 

[t85us]

no problem. with nvidia chipsets in the bios, for other with a floppy disk, or whatewer the mobo manufacturer tells.

with nforce bioses just enable the raid mode, than save, reboot ant enter in the raid bios (the screen before boot). select the new array, and put 2 hard drives as stripped, and then a new array with the other 2 hdds.
quit with saving settings and you are done

 

[MRFS]

our 2 cents:

Configure a 30-50GB C: partition on a VelociRaptor,
and configure your 4 x HDDs as a single RAID 0
(assuming they are all the same), or
as 2 x RAID 0 arrays (if they are not).

The smaller C: partition will result in "short strokes"
i.e. less overall movement of the READ/WRITE armature
on your VelociRaptor.

Just ignore the nervous nellies about "data loss":
if one HDD in a 2-drive RAID 0 fails, the result
is exactly the same when a single non-RAID drive fails:
you lose all data in every partition.

THAT'S WHAT BACKUPS ARE FOR (Duuh!)

If you are really worried about data loss,
consider other RAID options e.g. RAID 10,
RAID 5, or RAID 6 (depending on the
capabilities of your controller(s)).

We've experimented with several RAID 0 arrays
over the years, and they are faster than single spindles.


MRFS