raid0

[pokethesmot]

im wanting to upgrade my hard drive to a 1tb because the one i have is starting to mess up and dose not have allot of life left. I was going to get a cheap 2tb but now i have been suggested towards a good 1tb. SO i was wondering i was to get this hard drive and if I transfer my OS and stuff onto it could later on i go and buy another one of those hard drives and use raid0 and how would i go about doing that

 

[johnb35]

You could, but you would have to reinstall windows to set up the raid 0 as raid 0 spans data between the 2 drives for faster read/write access.

 

[pokethesmot]

so i would lose all my data and i have ubuntu btw

 

[johnb35]

Yes, you would lose all your data. Everything would have to be setup all over again.

 

[salvage-this]

You may already know this but unless you have true hardware RAID (like what servers use) Ubuntu needs to be set up with a RAID 1 partition for your boot files and RAID 0 for your /home directory. So you will not have a boost in boot times since RAID 1 is a mirror setup and not a stripe.