Planning to add two hard drives with SSD on Windows 7

[Anderw]

Hi,
I have a Desktop with 240 GB SSD running windows 7. I plan to use SSD for OS and add two more HDDs for storage. I would like to use HDDs only for storage and like to set them up RAID on those HDDs (Mirroring data). I would like to know such setup is possible? Am I right in planning such setup?

Thanks,

 

[J_E_D_70]

You're going to need to load the mobo chipset RAID drivers first, then activate it in the BIOS. Otherwise you can have issues.

From there, you'll press something like Ctrl+I to enter the RAID interface and create the RAID. On boot, you'll see a screen that shows the two drives as member disks and the SSD as non-member disk.

From there, you can google how to repoint my documents and all those folders to the mirror.

Keep in mind a mirror is for availability, not backup. You still need an external drive that you do regular backups to.