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How to set up Raid with two SSD drives

Anonymous
2012-11-25T01:51:02+00:00

I have recently run out of space on my 128gb crucial ssd drive. I have two 500gb seagate dives that I would like to use raid to combine and be able to run programs of them. After some research i am pretty sure I would like to use raid1 however dose that actually combine the drives to make 1tb of space of just have them be duplicated? I am not sure how to set up raid in the bios as my A75 Pro4/MVP ASRock motherboard bios is confusing.

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-11-25T04:17:44+00:00

    If you set up two 500 GB drives in Raid 1, the RAID array will have a 500 GB capacity. The two drives are Mirrored. That is to say, the controller, together with the RAID software, causes the same data to be written to both drives. If you set up in RAID 0, the controller and software 'stripe' the data, writing part to one drive and part to the other. The capacity becomes 1 TB. RAID-0 is not RAID at all since it provides no redundancy of storage, the 'R' of RAID.

    To simplify, for most systems, setup goes like this:

    1. Enter the BIOS and set the controller mode to RAID.
    2. Continue booting or reboot, depending on the BIOS.
    3. Enter RAID setup.
    4. Select the RAID type.
    5. Select drives to be used.
    6. Initiate setup.
    7. Reboot.
    8. Partition and format the array.

    Do be sure to check the manual for your computer's motherboard.

    Tom Ferguson

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-11-25T17:47:06+00:00

    For most recent motherboard/BIOS combinations within my experience, as soon as you plug in the cables to connect the drives to the data connections and to the power and boot, the drives are listed in the relevant BIOS tables. Do check the manual for the MoBo for drive connection and settings instructions. In the "goode olde days". it was frequently a requirement to specifically cause the drives to be detected or to manually enter drive parameters so they could be detected

    Note that often the MoBo drive connectors need to be enabled one-by-one. SATA1, SATA2, ....

    Tom Ferguson

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-11-25T15:59:24+00:00

    Thank you for clearing me up on the kinds of raid. I will probably now use raid 0. However, is there a way to get programs to be able to run on the drives I set up with raid as I would like downloads and installs to go there automatically. And finally how can I get my computer to recognize the drives other than my ssd in the bios. As of now only my ssd is recognized in the bios and I can't set up raid.

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