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RAID controlers
kureshii:
RAIDING hard drives WILL involve wiping and reformatting them. You will have to back up data on them elsewhere before proceeding with RAID-initialising.
The whole point of RAIDing multiple hard disks is to 'combine' them into a single 'volume' (technically a logical disk as mentioned earlier, but let's not throw too much terminology in yet). Once you have your combined RAID volume, you can partition it and do other things to it. If you prefer to keep your disks separate, RAID is not what you are looking for.
If you already "created a raid drive" like you said in the first post, chances are the data is wiped already (some data might still be recoverable)... unless you got lucky and didn't actually create a raid drive.
GoGeTa006:
Is there a way to not RAID it?
like to actually just have them as hard drives just sitting there? using them offcourse
kureshii:
--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on December 14, 2009, 06:37:36 AM ---Is there a way to not RAID it?
like to actually just have them as hard drives just sitting there? using them offcourse
--- End quote ---
Umm... just don't RAID them? Hard drives come unRAIDed by default, and you already know how to set them up the unRAIDed way...
Mcgreag:
Also 2 drives of different sizes don't work well in raid configuration, the array size will be based on the smaller drive (raid 1 will give you 76gb, raid 0 will give 2x76gb). You could do JBOD (just a bunch of disks) but that's mostly pointless IMHO.
GoGeTa006:
--- Quote from: kureshii on December 14, 2009, 06:39:17 AM ---
--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on December 14, 2009, 06:37:36 AM ---Is there a way to not RAID it?
like to actually just have them as hard drives just sitting there? using them offcourse
--- End quote ---
Umm... just don't RAID them? Hard drives come unRAIDed by default, and you already know how to set them up the unRAIDed way...
--- End quote ---
I bought the PCI-e card for the sole reason that my motheboard , modern as it is only has 1 IDE slot. therefore I can only fit 1 hard drive and my optical drive (or two optical drives)
ergo I have 2 hard drives that are just chilling somewhere else.
also if the PC does detect them as separate hard drives, no way around it? to just tell it "yo! use it as is!"
what happens if I right click and use one of the following:
new simple disk
new spanned disk
new stripped disk
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