Raid 0 help

[LawnMM]

Forgive the ignorance, I'm a noob in this area. Trying to raid two 80gb WD SE drives together. That much I believe I've accomplished. I'm going for the raid 0 setup for better performance. Its my understanding you combine the two 80 gig drives, it splits the data between them, and you get a faster single 80gb drive.

That much I thought I had done. Created the striped set with the highpoint controller. Here's where it gets weird. Windows shows it as a single 148gb hd. Which sounds more like raid 1 yes?

Ideally I'd like to use the hardware controller and image the 40ish gigs of info off my 200gb wd drive onto the new 80gb raid 0 array. Somewhere I'm going wrong though.

Tips, hints, comments, suggestions?

[floppybootstomp]

Simply put, RAID 0 = 2 x 80Gb drives resulting in one drive of 160Gb (seen by OS as true size of 148Gb)

RAID 1 = 2 x 80Gb drives, one holding OS, the other mirroring it, sort of like a permanent backup.

Obviously you can use other size drives, I've just used 80Gb as an example as that's the size drives you're using.

[LawnMM]

Okay. Makes sense now that I think about it. Next question. Anybody have a theory on why I can't get Ghost to image over my OS from my 200gig drive to the raid array? It says the target partition isn't big enough, duh, but its only 40gigs of actual data. Then it says cannot open ghosterr.txt and kicks me out of the program.

Whats the best way to image over? Alternate software?

[Tex]

Ghost should work but I love Acronis True Image. Worst case is you could use PM to cut the size of the 200gb down to match the raid-0 size. Then ghost it.

And your a lucky guy to have EQuito and floppy here to deal with your raid probs. I'll go nap I guess... You got two of the best holding your hand.

Tex

[LawnMM]

Ghost should work but I love Acronis True Image. Worst case is you could use PM to cut the size of the 200gb down to match the raid-0 size. Then ghost it.

And your a lucky guy to have EQuito and floppy here to deal with your raid probs. I'll go nap I guess... You got two of the best holding your hand.

Tex

Good idea, thanks Tex. I'll resize it and try ghosting it again. Never had problems ghosting from larger partitions to smaller as long as the actual data size wasn't larger. Guess its a more finicky version than the last one I used.

[EMT]

I too at first expected RAID 0 to come out to the size of a single drive, but all the data on a RAIDed drive is continuous and every (decent size) file is split between the two drives. So you do get the full storage space of the drives combined. It's a good deal really :)