Raid 0, extremely urgent

Hey, i have an older 250 gb 7200 rpm seagate harddisk and a new 250 gb one, the older one has data and i want to configure them in raid 0, i know i will lose the data, but how do i configure them? do i format the older one completely or will it be done on its own or what?

You set up the RAID drive in your BIOS. Either they will be reboothed there or you can do it after starting Windows after the Array is created.

if your motherboard supports it, you'll need to enablie it in the BIOS. After that you'll get a new screen after POST that will ask you to enter a certain key combo to setup the drives for raid (usally like Crtl + I or other key combo).

fter that, select which raid type, which drives, and thats it.

Just remember, if the HDDs aren't the EXACT same you WILL experience slow performance of the RAID array.

This is because the controllers on the HDD are different and the platter configuration is different for both drives. Meaning that the newer HDD is going to be faster than the older 250, but when in RAID it'll be slowed down to the speed of the older one.

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