Setup for RAID

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I have 4 connect points on the nVIDIA nForce4 Ultra motherboard. The
drives are now connected, and both drives are listed as being on the Primary
ATA channels. The up-to-date system drive is Disk 0, Location 0. The empty
drive is Disk 1, Location 0. The up-to-date system drive is identified as a
Basic drive, with the empty drive as a Dynamic drive. I think the Help
pages say that both drives need to be Dynamic before I can get the menu
choices to create a mirror. If that is correct, then I must convert the
up-to-date system drive to Dynamic. BIG QUESTION - Will this conversion
have an adverse affect on the system or data files on the drive? Does the
empty drive need to be reformatted in any way?

Butch
 
- Butch said:
I have 4 connect points on the nVIDIA nForce4 Ultra motherboard. The
drives are now connected, and both drives are listed as being on the Primary
ATA channels. The up-to-date system drive is Disk 0, Location 0. The empty
drive is Disk 1, Location 0. The up-to-date system drive is identified as a
Basic drive, with the empty drive as a Dynamic drive. I think the Help
pages say that both drives need to be Dynamic before I can get the menu
choices to create a mirror. If that is correct, then I must convert the
up-to-date system drive to Dynamic. BIG QUESTION - Will this conversion
have an adverse affect on the system or data files on the drive? Does the
empty drive need to be reformatted in any way?

Butch
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Though I advise against using RAID...
If you go with RAID at all I suggest using harware RAID and to set it up
using the RAID bios.

Dynamic disk option can enable a software RAID...but I would not use that
option
 
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