I have very little experience with RAID as I never found it useful
for my needs. But now I do think I have a use for it.
Last Dec I picked up a 30GB SSD for 100 bucks, mostly just to play
around with it, as 30GB isn't big enough for windows 7 OS. I have my
pagefile on it and I will run whatever game I am playing for faster
load times. It is OK, although I haven't had the spectacular
experience that I have read about from others. The biggest thing that
I noticed is that I was able to tell VMWare to swap out all the
memory and use as little physical memory as possible, which freed up
lots of physical RAM and VM performance actually improved.
Today I see my exact SSD on sale and I am thinking about buying it
and then RAID 0 with the existing one which should now be big enough
= 60GB to run windows 7 from. Right now I have a Raptor, with one
primary active as the Win7 system drive, and then three logicals for
various other things. All other drives are partitioned as one big
logical. I have one more SATA port available to put the SSD on.
First I would use Acronis to backup the existing active primary with
Win7 on it.
Then I would have to set up the RAID 0 with the two identical SSDs.
At that point I could delete the active primary partition on the
Raptor, and set the bios up to boot from the RAID 0 SSDs
Restore the system to the SSD
And then boot up into windows 7.
Do I have the process right? Would this work ? It is not a
problamatic setup is it? Can I have the OS and boot drive entirely on a RAID 0.
thanks
w
