Raid install guide

Back up everything you cannot afford to lose from your OS drive before starting. Select Create a new pool and storage space. Windows will check all drives and select them in the next window. Set the drive size under Size if necessary. It should default to the correct setting. Select Create storage space.

Wait for the process to complete and you should then see a single disk with the correct size in Windows Explorer. HOME Articles crosshair-motherboards. Articles: Crosshair Motherboards Guides Motherboards. What kinds of RAID are there? RAID This technique has striping but no redundancy of data.

Drives are typically added in multiples of two. RAID This type is also known as disk mirroring and consists of at least two drives that duplicate the storage of data.

There is no striping. Read performance is improved since either disk can be read at the same time, meaning if one disk is busy the other is accessed. Write performance is the same as for single disk storage. RAID-1 provides the best performance and some fault-tolerance in a multi-user system, although for a single user it's unlikely to see as much benefit.

Again drives are typically added in multiples of two. It has no advantage over RAID-3 and has generally been superseded.

The embedded error checking ECC information is used to detect errors. Data recovery is accomplished by calculating the exclusive OR XOR of the information recorded on the other drives. For this reason, RAID-3 is best for single-user systems and uses three or more drives. On the second flash drive you will need to download the windows ISO. You can find that download link here.

I briefly mentioned the benefits of each iteration of Raid, but with all advantages in life, come their respective disadvantages. Since Raid 0 distributes your data to multiple drives, if a single drive fails, all of the data on the other drives will be gone as well.

That being said, Raid 0 and Raid 1 are both super easy to set up and require basically the exact same setup process. From here you should navigate to your BIOS equivalent of the chipset. This screen will look something like this:. At this point your screen should look something like this:. After reaching this point you should select Create Array then select the drives you want to use for the raid configuration. The drives available will be listed on the right-hand side under Disks.

From here you can decide which configuration you want to select. I personally selected Raid 0 but the choice is yours. After this you will choose the size of the array you want to build. I just kept the default setting of using All Available Space for my raid drives.

This will look something like this:. After configuring it to your liking simply press C to create your array. Press Esc and Y to restart your system with your new Raid configuration.