Your best best for doing real RAID is to get an actual card. I highly discourage doing software RAID especially on Windows as performance won't be too bad in comparison to hardware RAID, but for if you really want any level of protection from failure don't think software can supplant hardware RAID.
Yes they cost money. Yes, they can be a complicated. But if you want RAID to work for you, you have to invest in the hardware. You can explore the software raid features by right clicking on your "My Computer" icon, choosing "Manage", and then click the "Disk Management" entry in the tree on the left side of the window that opens.
Look for any disks listed as "dynamic" odds are your system volume is currently "basic" and right click on them to get a menu of tasks you can perform.
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Active 11 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 24k times. In this scenario, there are two disks on the computer, Disk 0 and Disk 1. Both disks are dynamic disks and have at least 1 gigabyte GB of free unallocated space on each disk for a total volume of 2 GB. In the lower-right pane of the Disk Management tool, right-click the free, unallocated volume space on either disk, and then click Create Volume.
In the left pane under Select Two or More Disks , a list is displayed that contains all disks that have enough free, unallocated space to participate in the striped volume. In the right pane under Selected , the disk that you right-clicked in step 1 is displayed. All disks that are displayed in the right pane are labeled Selected.
View the bottom of the Select Disk dialog box under the Size label. The For All Selected Disks box displays the maximum size of the striped volume that you can make. The volume on each disk is the same size in the completed striped volume.
For example, if you have MB on the first disk, you have MB on the second disk. Therefore, the total size of your combined volumes is double that of the smaller of the volumes on the two disks.
You can reduce the size of the volume by modifying the value in the Disk Size box. Keep in mind that on a system that has two disks, the total striped volume size is double the size that you enter.
The Total Volume Size box under the right pane displays the actual size of the striped volume. At this time, you may want to assign a drive letter to your striped volume you can also do this at any other time.
To do so, click Assign Drive Letter , and then enter an available drive letter. If it came with cd. You must copy the files from the cd to the root of the floppy disk. Install the raid controller into the pci slot or pci-e slot. Connect the sata cable ends to the two sata port of the raid controller. The other ends go to the two hard drives you going to install. If your motherboard has a built in raid.
Make sure you read the manual to enable the raid. For built in raid read your manuel to setup the drives. Im going to replace two Samsung Gb hard drive they went bad. Im going to install two Seagate GB each. If you wondering if I had back up the data. Yes I did just the data. Im going to install Windows from new that you can see the steps.
Beside it was showing error on Windows. Just turn on the computer and keep an eye on the sceen you should see a command line with sata raid. To enter the menu to the raid card. You should be in the menu of the raid controller 1. Disk utilities and make sure you see the two hard drives. Select the drives to create array. Pick 00 and last 01 3. Array Properties. Array Type You will have many Raid options to choose from. In this guide we going to use Raid 1 Mirror.
Once you select the raid your ready to built. Sometime gave you option to built quick. You can but how can you be sure if the drives are good.
As you can see it building already. It may take hours to finish mirror the drive. You can start installing Windows. Just exit out of the configure.
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