Hello,
I have searched for a while now but I haven't found any suitable answers to my question so I decided to post it here.
And my situation is as follows:
I have searched for a while now but I haven't found any suitable answers to my question so I decided to post it here.
And my situation is as follows:
- I have 3x3TB empty drives and 1x2TB drive with data on it.
- I have Windows 10 machine.
- My motherboard doesn't support hardware RAID.
- Said RAID will serve me as a general purpose local storage (games, photos, document etc.).
- Is it possible to do it like this:
- Make RAID 0 (striping) out of 2 3TB drives.
- Copy my data from 2TB drive to that RAID. (Side question: what is the best solution to copying big amounts of data (1.6 TB)? Maybe Clonezilla?)
- Format 2TB drive and make another RAID 0 with the remaining 3TB drive.
- Join both RAID 0s into RAID 1 (mirror).
- The result is a 4TB RAID 10 with the speed of ~2x the speed of a single drive that also contains my previous data.
- Is it possible both on hardware RAID and a software one? If on both which one should I chose?
- If this is not possible... let's say i buy another 3TB drive. Should I also buy an PCIe hardware controller? What would be the performance gain in comparison to software RAID?
- If hardware RAID is significantly better then could you recommend a tutorial on how to set up one?
- If you know a better solution than RAID to my problem of expanding a storage capacity of my PC then I would like to hear it too.