Hi guys,
I just built a new system, with 2x80GB SATA2 Seagate Barracudas.
I've stupidly gone on and installed all my stuff onto one of the HDs without setting up a RAID (which was the whole point of the 2 identical HDs).
Questions:
a) If I reformat and create a RAID, will Windows howl at me and make me phone up the nice people @ MS to re-activate (I already had to do this with adding 1GB of ram because intially one stick was DOA, and I guess my o/cing).
b) Is RAID0 risky? I know I get ~160GB of storage 'as one' and its faster, but am I risking my HD's failure. In other words, is the performance gain tangible in everyday websurfing/e-mails and light games (AOE3, & flight sim). Storage capacity is not an issue, 80GB is fine (only used 30GB on laptop and 30GB on old computer so far with 60GB and 40GB respective capacities).
Right, I'm off before my computer gets fried from the electrical storm
Thanks in advance!
Marmion
I just built a new system, with 2x80GB SATA2 Seagate Barracudas.
I've stupidly gone on and installed all my stuff onto one of the HDs without setting up a RAID (which was the whole point of the 2 identical HDs).
Questions:
a) If I reformat and create a RAID, will Windows howl at me and make me phone up the nice people @ MS to re-activate (I already had to do this with adding 1GB of ram because intially one stick was DOA, and I guess my o/cing).
b) Is RAID0 risky? I know I get ~160GB of storage 'as one' and its faster, but am I risking my HD's failure. In other words, is the performance gain tangible in everyday websurfing/e-mails and light games (AOE3, & flight sim). Storage capacity is not an issue, 80GB is fine (only used 30GB on laptop and 30GB on old computer so far with 60GB and 40GB respective capacities).
Right, I'm off before my computer gets fried from the electrical storm
Thanks in advance!
Marmion