Best Way to made a RAID0 System

[marshalex]

After seeing the impressive performance of the samsung F3 500gb i just put in a build for my brother i'm thinking about getting a couple and putting them in RAID-0. What would be the best way of setting this up once the disks are installed? Is it easy to install Windows 7 onto a RAID-0 setup?

[mac124]

The best (only?) way i know of doing it, specially for the os drive, is from within the bios on your motherboard. you wont be disappointed as i have done the same on my i5 machine.

I "short stroked" the os partition to around 300gb and according to HDTune i get the following results, which are as good / better when compared to an SSD on another forum on all accounts bar access time.

[marshalex]

good stuff. would i be able to do it without reinstalling the OS (i.e. making an image of whats installed currently, creating the raid and then transferring the image to the raid drive?)

[mac124]

That i'm not sure about if i am totally honest as its not something i have done. It might be possible with something like partedmagic but tbh you might need someone who has more experience in those matters to answer that one.

[bigben1021]

Pretty sure you could do that! When they are in RAID, the hardware handles all the disk reading/writing and it just fronts up as 1 drive.