Have 2 Corsair force 3 SSD's, same size same model and at the moment one is "C" drive and the other is "x" drive where I keep music/pics etc. Have a 500 gig Samsung HD that I can use for storage and backing up data as well as A Story External USB3 drive. Now I have just also made it dual bootable with Ubuntu 13.04 on a WD Raptor Hard drive using the F12 key , both Windows and Ubuntu are on "efi" drives . ?
Basically this is a Games Machine and I very much prefer the lazy approach and let everything get installed on the 240GB Corsair drive. Problem is it tends to get full so I was thinking of making the 2 Force drives into a RAID 0 setup, basically giving me a 480 GB hard drive. They would be connected on the 6GBs sata ports and maybe even get a slight increase in speeds out of this.
PRO's ... larger "C" drive for Windows 7
.... increase speed
NEGATIVES ... if one drive goes then thats it ( but everything will be backed up )
.... reinstalling Win7 and talking to MS about activation again
..... work required to do this
Also I am wondering how this mobo will handle the Raid 0 installation and running off. Lately Gigabyte version 1 boards are a bit of a pain and after going through pain to get it running smoothly is it worthwhile to play around with it again ?
Do you reckon its a good move or stupid one ? What would you do ?
Also any good hints if I go ahead. Things to avoid ?
Basically this is a Games Machine and I very much prefer the lazy approach and let everything get installed on the 240GB Corsair drive. Problem is it tends to get full so I was thinking of making the 2 Force drives into a RAID 0 setup, basically giving me a 480 GB hard drive. They would be connected on the 6GBs sata ports and maybe even get a slight increase in speeds out of this.
PRO's ... larger "C" drive for Windows 7
.... increase speed
NEGATIVES ... if one drive goes then thats it ( but everything will be backed up )
.... reinstalling Win7 and talking to MS about activation again
..... work required to do this
Also I am wondering how this mobo will handle the Raid 0 installation and running off. Lately Gigabyte version 1 boards are a bit of a pain and after going through pain to get it running smoothly is it worthwhile to play around with it again ?
Do you reckon its a good move or stupid one ? What would you do ?
Also any good hints if I go ahead. Things to avoid ?
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