Well, first off I'll have to add the 3rd drive in the AMD BIOS by hitting
Ctrl-F during boot don't I? Are you saying that I can bypass that and add
additional drives in Window's Disk Manager? I find that difficult to
believe. No offense intended!
Understood about RAID 0 being insecure as far as data loss should one of
the drives go bad. I'm not concerned however because we're talking about
the Steamapps folder (backed up on a couple other drives already) and
Windows Update for the most part. It's just a game box with a few things
installed and I'm trying to get greater performance as I feel the
mechanical hardrive is the weakest link. I have 5 total internal
connections and one of them is used for a SATA DVD burner. I probably will
add a 4th disk at some point but all of this is a learning experience in
the meantime. All these years messing with hardware and this is the first
time I've ever done RAID anything. Could probably go with a cheap OCZ
Agility 2 and get everything installed in 40 gigs but I'm having fun
playing. LOL, later I will most definitely go SSD and any extra drives
will go up for auction.
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:42:28 -0500, Soren <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Z ;)
Nope, you don't have to (re)install Windows to add a third drive, this
is all done by using Disk manager within Windows > right click on My
Computer, and select the proper value (Administrate) - or go to the
"run" menu and type: MSC, and then select Disk Manager.
If this is still completely blank to you, it might be a good idea to
invite your favorite computer geek over for a couple of beers.
As a rule-of-thumb, it is NOT a good idea to save important files on a
RAID0 array, as a RAID0 array WILL go down, and this usually happens at
the most inconveniant time (bin there, and all that stuff).
If your question is more towards about adding a third disk to an already
existing RAID array, this can be done, of course. Only you should care
that RAID0 works at it's optimum at 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc. disks.
Therefore, adding an odd number of disks seems quite, well... odd.
Hence, forget about using three disks in a RAID0 array. Performancewise,
you'll only get a tiny fraction worth of your investment. I've done
plenty benchmarking confirming this, and I'm sure other HWG's has done
the same - it's just not worth it.
Solution: Go double 4 disk RAID0 by HW controller, and mirror those two
arrays within Disk Manager as RAID1. The other thing is just a waste of
time...
/s
Scoobydo wrote:
I have a two drive RAID 0 array which is working well for me so far. I
have purchased another identical drive from Ebay and it should be here
early next week. Am I correct in assuming that I will have to
re-install Windows when I add my third drive?
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Opera's e-mail client
Main Machine:
Generic Steel Case
ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 Mobo
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (Default speed)
OCZ DDR3 1333 (2x2=4)
Palit GTX460 1 Gig (OC'd to 865 MHz)
WD Cariar Black 640 Gig
Lite On 22X DVD Burner
ASUS 21.5" 1080P Monitor
fold...@home (11,000 PPD)
Game Box:
Cooler Master CM690 Mid-Tower
Gigabyte 785G/SB710
AMD Phenom II X2 555 C3
Corsair Dominator RAM 2 gigs
PowerColor HD5770 1 gig
Seasonic 550 watt PSU
2 Seagate 7200.12 500 gig (RAID 0)
LiteOn DVD Burner
