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I am wondering if I new to start with claen hd's to
switch to raid or can i just install the drivers and plug
my existing formated drives into the controller
dragon kt400 ultra
windows xp
 
RAID setup need to re-format the drives so that the "virtual" drive is
correctly set up.

A RAID virtual drive is a definition on how to access the hard drives.
RAID 0 virtual drive setting: 2, or more, drives grouped
together to use all the storage capacity of all the
drives.
RAID 1 virtual drive setting: 2 drives (exactly to same size
each) are grouped together. Whenever the files are
written to the
first drive, an exact copy of the file is automatically done on the
second drive.
The drive capcite is the exact capacite of one drive (1/2 of the
total 2
drives). Known in the computer world as Disk Mirroring.

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dj said:
I am wondering if I new to start with claen hd's to
switch to raid or can i just install the drivers and plug
my existing formated drives into the controller
dragon kt400 ultra
windows xp
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You don't specify which raid chip you are using. With the
Promise RAID controllers one can just install the drivers
to the original disk. Then attach the drives and build the
array.
 
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