I've recently build a new system and because besides gaming I would like to do some video editing on top of that I though out about setting up RAID 0. It's more like a fun thing than something I expect to gain tons of performance. But still I'd be hoping for some HDD speeds to increase. However after getting my 2nd drive I can tell I'm pretty much lost. And am no longer sure whenever this whole RAID idea was a good one. ;-)
So I have one SSD drive, which is supposed to be OS drive and two 2TB mechanical drives. I figured I would use them HDDs to build a 4TB Raid 0 'storage', to keep my games, videos, do some edits and maybe even record games on the go.
As much as HDD technology is quite old now, I'd hope to make it perform a bit better with Raid.
So I've connected the 2nd HDD, went to BIOS, changed SATA mode from AHCI to RAID and went to AMD's controller bios/setup.
By default it seemed like all my drives were connected into single array, which I didn't liked. So I've deleted the default array and not sure how to proceed now. If I want to keep that SSD for OS and kind of separate, should I create a separate raid array with just this one SSD drive? Or there's some other way around it?
During setup of second array which consists of two 2TB HDDs I've learned I can only have up to 2TB drive/partition in this setup. Which is pretty much pointless to progress with Raid 0 setup.
I've learned there's a software way of setting up the raid 0 which I haven't tried simply because this software way is to be said performing slower. But is probably a way to go, I've noticed MSI has this app that's supposed to help with it if I understand correctly. MSI Smart Tool https://www.msi.com/files/pdf/SMART_TOOL_User_Guide_EN.pdf haven't used it though.
So what are my options? If there are any?
Try reinstalling Windows in RAID mode? Won't SSD's performance be affected then?
Or get back to AHCI mode and try software Raid?
Or give it up after all? 😀
Thanks!
My setup:
MSI B350 Gaming Plus with latest BIOS
Gskill Flare X 2x8GB
AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Gigabyte Aorus RX 580
ADATA - Ultimate SU800 256GB
2x Toshiba - P300 2TB
So I have one SSD drive, which is supposed to be OS drive and two 2TB mechanical drives. I figured I would use them HDDs to build a 4TB Raid 0 'storage', to keep my games, videos, do some edits and maybe even record games on the go.
As much as HDD technology is quite old now, I'd hope to make it perform a bit better with Raid.
So I've connected the 2nd HDD, went to BIOS, changed SATA mode from AHCI to RAID and went to AMD's controller bios/setup.
By default it seemed like all my drives were connected into single array, which I didn't liked. So I've deleted the default array and not sure how to proceed now. If I want to keep that SSD for OS and kind of separate, should I create a separate raid array with just this one SSD drive? Or there's some other way around it?
During setup of second array which consists of two 2TB HDDs I've learned I can only have up to 2TB drive/partition in this setup. Which is pretty much pointless to progress with Raid 0 setup.
I've learned there's a software way of setting up the raid 0 which I haven't tried simply because this software way is to be said performing slower. But is probably a way to go, I've noticed MSI has this app that's supposed to help with it if I understand correctly. MSI Smart Tool https://www.msi.com/files/pdf/SMART_TOOL_User_Guide_EN.pdf haven't used it though.
So what are my options? If there are any?
Try reinstalling Windows in RAID mode? Won't SSD's performance be affected then?
Or get back to AHCI mode and try software Raid?
Or give it up after all? 😀
Thanks!
My setup:
MSI B350 Gaming Plus with latest BIOS
Gskill Flare X 2x8GB
AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Gigabyte Aorus RX 580
ADATA - Ultimate SU800 256GB
2x Toshiba - P300 2TB