small question about raid 0 1

[jared5494]

Hello everyone,
I have a 120GB hard drive (ata150) on an Asus p4p800-deluxe with a serial ata raid controller. My question is, if i purchase another hard drive (same as above) and make it a raid 0, will i have to delete everything on my computer before it can split the data between the hard drives?

thanks,
Jared

 

[ski]

Yep, all data on the original HD will be wiped out when creating a RAID 0 array.
So be sure to back up all critical files on it first.

 

[nlm9802]

I'd recommend buying a cheap 40 or 60GB IDE drive and using that for your windows installation, then use it to move your data, and then create your raid 0 stripe set.

This also gives you ~30-35 spare GB for anything critical, in case one of the drives fails and you lose your stripe set, you still have the critical data on the IDE disk.