malatamax10 :
well i’m trying to combine my two hdds into one for faster performance and easier management. it’ll be my mass storage for games and big files etc... also why do you advise against raid 0? what is the problem with it?
1TB + 1TB + RAID 0 = 2TB
1TB + 1TB + no RAID 0 = 2TB
Same space. Game performance will not benefit from that RAID. Management will be worse. More points of fail.
If either drive, or the RAID controller fails (or even just burps a little bit)...all data is lost across both drives.
All you gain is a single drive letter instead of 2. But you already have more than one, so no real benefit there.
So dedicate one drive to games. The D drive.
Dedicate the other one, the E drive, to all that other stuff.