Question Raid?

Dec 12, 2019
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So I have a gigabyte b450m motherboard.
Have a
Inland Premium 256GB 3D NAND M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive

Also have a

WD Blue 1TB PC Hard Drive - 7200 RPM Class, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD10EZEX

Is there a benefit of setting a raid up?
If so , which kind and easiest way to do so.
Could use some help.
 

falcon291

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RAID can work only on identical drives. And as seen your drives are far away from being identical: One is PCIe NVME the other is SATA HDD. One is 256 GB, the other is 1 TB.

And one other thing, there isn't much gain, noticeable gain at least in RAID PCIe NVMe drives, so I would not recommend it.

So for your case RAID is not possible and needed.
 

USAFRet

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Is there a benefit of setting a raid up?
If so , which kind and easiest way to do so.
Could use some help.
Absolutely not.
Especially with 2 completely different drives.

But for future reference, "what kind" depends on what you want it to do.
In the consumer space, RAID of any type is generally not needed.

RAID 0 - stripe. Data is striped across two or more drives.
With spinning HDD's, there was an actual speed benefit.
With SSD's, it does not except in certain few use cases.
However, the data is much more vulnerable to total loss. Striped across multiple drives...if any drive in that array dies, all data is lost across all drives.

RAID 1 - mirror. Data is mirrored between two or more drives. If a physical drive goes bad, the system can limp along on the remaining drive until such time as things can be fixed.
It does NOT provide protection against all the other forms of data loss. Virus, accidental deletion, malware, etc, etc.
People think it is a good backup strategy. A "second copy". It is not.


Read here for a description of the various array types.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels