Raid Setup

[Parrôtt]

Mainboard is a GA M59SLI-S5
Already have a WDC WD3200KS which I play games on. I have another HDD
exactly the same and want to know if I can configure this for raid with the
above.

Running Windows XP Pro SP2

Thanks for your help

God Bless

 

[Guest]

Two things:
First this is a newsgroup for XP general questions, not hardware.
Two, you need to look in your motherboard docs and see if your MB supports
Raid and what configuration, we wouldn't have a clue.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Mainboard is a GA M59SLI-S5
Already have a WDC WD3200KS which I play games on. I have another HDD
exactly the same and want to know if I can configure this for raid
with the above.

Sure, you could set up software RAID, but I wouldn't bother. I don't see
much value in RAID unless it's handled by hardware & is invisible to the
operating system - for reasons of performance as well as reliability.

That said, if you wish - this may help.
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=830&page=5

Running Windows XP Pro SP2

Thanks for your help

God Bless

As well intentioned as that comment probably is, I think many might prefer
not to see expressions of anyone's religious beliefs in a technical
newsgroup (I'm among them, frankly).

 

[Newbie Coder]

Parrott,

Are the drives identical?

Are the SATA? Do you have a raid card? Is the raid array built in to the motherboard?

On the motherboard you should have 2 SATA sockets. If so, use 0 & 1 which if correct will
give you raid 1 (mirrored)

 

[David B.]

Not entirely correct.
The drives don't need to be identical, it's just recommended that they are.
His motherboard may have more SATA connections than 2, just plugging drives
into 0 and 1 will not automatically set up an array, RAID must be enabled in
BIOS if applicable, then the array must be configured with the RAID utility.