Question regarding RAID 0...?

Question

At the moment, I have one 320GB hard drive and I plan to buy another 320GB and them set up in RAID 0 (performance). My question is, when in install the hard drive, how will be able to set them up in RAID. My motherboard supports RAID: the Intel G33 Chipset.

Furthermore, if I am able to able to set up the drives in RAID 0, what will become of the data that is on the drive right now?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Well the part the last guy left out is, the stuff on your drive right now goes away. To setup RAID 0, you have to have two formatted hard drives, hence you will lose all data you have right now. As for how to set it up, information on that should be in the manual that came with your motherboard.

Answer 2

RAID 0 is stripe.
First, you have to set up your BIOS and make the drive as RAID.
RAID 0 are to make your Hard drive as Stipe.
That means if you plan to make a RAID 0, your HDD will be a 640 Gb (320Gb+320Gb) and you can't partitition your HDD.
there's lot thing to do to make the RAID.
after setting BIOS, your mainboard start up, enter the RAID set up by pressing ....(that will show up in your monitor) and make it as RAID 0.

the worst is if you install the Operating system like windows XP and your RAID driver is not plug and play, the installation didn't detect your Hard drive. but if it plug and play you can continue the installation because it detect your HDD.
If its not, you have to make the driver copy from other PC at your mainboard CD driver then make it floppy driver.

At the installation process read " Press F3 to install SCSI driver ". thats it....SCSI driver same as RAID driver.
then insert the RAID driver at the floppy disk.

then you can finish the intallation of the Operating System.

Understand?
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