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1. Re: Noob setting mobo RAID 0 - any pitfalls?
JEShort01 Dec 28, 2011 1:35 AM (in response to J.Elliott8652)Regarding WD TLER, don't worry about that at all for your situation; it applies to hardware parity RAID controllers (not RAID 0) only.
Regarding 1) RAID 0 can most certainly be set up after the OS has been loaded. Setting up a RAID 0 pair after the OS has already been loaded on a single drive does go smoothest if the original boot drive is set up as ACHI as opposed to IDE. If this is not done, Intel's utilities can make the conversion afterwards as well.
Regarding 2) The Crucial probably would have been a good choice for your boot drive, the older Hitachi is better suited to your mix than the SSD. The only possibility I can think of where adding the SSD would be useful would be to move the DVD drive to a 5.25" USB 2.0 enclosure (freeing up a SATA port), adding the Crucial and reloading Adobe and possibly some other programs onto the SSD where "load speed" would benefit your system
Regarding 3) 64KB
Regarding 4) No; possibly you are getting confused by discussions regarding a RAID 0 boot/OS/programs configuration, as adding a RAID 0 "set" to an existing setup is really pretty standard, pretty low-risk stuff
Finally, if you don't have a large USB drive or other methold to backup your OS image and your data files then that should be high on your "next purchase" list. And if that is not in the budget, sell the SSD to help fund that!
Good luck.
Jim


