I didn't format one of my hard drives to set RAID.

Okay, so I stayed up reading my ASUS mobo manual about setting up RAID. I reformated one of the hard drives but not the other. Now, all my stuff is on one hard drive and it says they are running RAID but only showing one 640. My question is, Can I format my other 640 hard drive and keep all the rest of my data where is it on my first 640 hard drive? Or, do have to reformat both of them and start all over?

cpt.obvious said:

Okay, so I stayed up reading my ASUS mobo manual about setting up RAID. I reformated one of the hard drives but not the other. Now, all my stuff is on one hard drive and it says they are running RAID but only showing one 640. My question is, Can I format my other 640 hard drive and keep all the rest of my data where is it on my first 640 hard drive? Or, do have to reformat both of them and start all over?

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are you running RAID 0 or RAID 1?

RAID 0 well wanting too.

cpt.obvious said:

RAID 0 well wanting too.

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when you create the RAID it will destroy all data and then you will have to reload the OS. RAID 0 is not really worth it for end users at all, unless you deal with large amounts of data throughput, ie you are editing and using multiple files that are all many gigabytes in size. Like editing video, or encoding or perhaps even rendering you may see performance increases.

DVD play back, video games, web surfing, office productivity applications, and so forth will not benefit from RAID 0. Furthermore, if one drive goes south the whole RAID array fails and your data goes out with it.

I suggest you reconsider running RAID 0, and if you must at least look into running a RAID 0+1, which would require 4 HDs, but then at least you will have a mirrored set of your RAID 0 in case it crashes.

If you run windows it will crash too, I have never seen a RAID zero run for years with out issues on a Windows box.

I have actually just found a lot of people saying that. Well, I'll just leave it as it is. No biggie. Thank you for your time and help!