They are on the driver disk that is shipped with the motherboard. If you don't have that you should be able to download them from the manufacturers website.
I got mine to work. It appeared the drivers were not on the CD from Alienware so I had to download them from the download page and install from the inf files from a USB drive I had. All is good now, and these instructions are pretty accurate.
Not at all sure I understand why RAID-0 configuration was chosen here. Certainly it's faster--but faster for what? Surfing the Internet, writing Word docs, etc? If you are going to stream data (audio or HD video, for instance), then sure...use RAID-0. But with this installation, if one drive fails...poof, there goes your OS! There is absolutely NO fault tolerance with RAID-0, so why use it for a drive with an OS one it? You would be far better off putting your OS on a smaller drive.
I needed the speed for editing HD video, hence the Raid 0
But I have since purchased an SSD for the operating system and just use the hard drives for storage now (still in Raid 0) but I also have a permanent USB backup drive plugged in. If one of the hard drives fail it is not a problem as I still have the data on the backup drive.
@ultimatehandyman That is a far better solution, as you of course really don't want to be trying to stream data to drives that are also being read for program code. I would do exactly what you are doing now, in that case. If you have the room in the machine, you could maybe look at a RAID-5 system to gain some redundancy but not sacrifice the speed.
The problem I am having is the raid is seen in the bios as a stripe and in its own Array. However, when I begin installing Windows, and use the drivers from Alienware, the drives do not combine, they still appear seperate. I cant figure out how to fix this.
I'm looking into setting up raid 0 on my pc. What driver's were you using at 5:00? Is it available at my motherboard's website? Because I tried looking and didn't know which ones I needed.
If you go to your motherboards website and download several drivers, windows will choose the correct one. You might just have to navigate to each driver until the computer selects the correct one.
you know!... thanks to you I finally got a step closer on how to make my two hard drives work as one... I have a DELL PowerEdge 800 here at work that I have been trying to get into a RAID setup. Sadly... GOOGLE has not been my best friend nor has the Dell RAID "manual" (AKA one sheet of paper telling you what to press that's it) worked either. hahah
What was that driver he was loading at 5:00 ? I didnt do that when I installed Windows 7. Does anybody know how to get that driver for an Asus p8p67 Pro motherboard?
@ultimatehandyman Oh right yeah, Im having a problem with my Sata Ports the 6 G/b 'S ports on my Mother Board aren't recognizing my hard drive. It will only work in the 3gb/s Slot. I'm fully aware my 2tb Seagate Hard Drive is certified for 6gb/s. Will appreciate any helpful response. Thanks.
Probably best if you check the seagate website, you might need to install some drivers before being able to use the hard drive at 6GB/s. Unfortunately with some drives you have to mess about with drivers/firmware before you can get the most out of them!
ok i got two wd black 750 in raid 0 and one day upon booting up it gave me a blue screen but the two partition seem to be healthy it just that window 7 don't c it could it be that it missing drivers?
So do you have any advice as to what I should do? I updated the bios, downloaded the latest drivers from the Gigabyte website, yet windows will STILL not recognize that the drovers are even there.
Please help me! I just spent a lot more money than I should have on two Seagate barracuda 1tb hard drives and now I cannot get raid to work.
I will apprecate any help you can give. Thanks in advance!!
Might be a problem with the SSD and windows/drivers.
One way to fix it for sure is remove the SSD and set up raid 0 using the 2 hard drives. Then clone the hard drives to the SSD and make the SSD the first boot device.
@ultimatehandyman I don't have any SSD's and much to my embarasment I totally FORGOT to unzip the drivers that I downloaded to my SD chip. DOH!!!!
Anyhow, my RAID 0 setup is working just fine now, windows 7 64 bit totally recognized it and you all my now laugh at my stupidity! LOL!
In my defense, this was my very first time I ever attempted such a thing on this motherboard, which I may not even have had to buy, because I totally frigged up my VERY FIRST attempt on my previous mainboard
I appreciate the effort you put into this video, and I have attempted to do just that with my new Gigabyte GA990FXA UD5 motherboard, however, windows will not even acknowledge that the Raid drivers for the board are even there! I even disabled the recognize signed/unsigned whatever function during windows startup during installation. I put in my Sd chip ( I have no floppy drive) and the driver does nto even appear on it during windows install. It's there, I checked it on another computer,
Probably not much, but you can choose exactly which software is installed.
When I built this I was going to buy a Dell, but it came with lots of pre-installed software which could not be removed at checkout and which I did not want! The software was also not free which was the deciding factor in the purchase!
How many hard disk drives do you need for raid 0 configuration, and must they all be identical? Also, do I just go to the motherboard manufacturer website to download the drivers?
Hey! Thanks for the video. I have a question... How can I know which type of RAID (by software or hardware) supports muy motherboard? I have an Intel DH67BL. I would like to make a RAID 0 system, but only if it's by hardware...
i am going to use the intel sata 3 ports, what raid driver do i need to download? there are 6 to choose from on the motherboard website.. my mobo is Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3. help would be much appreciated!
Why would I need raid 0 what is the benefit ?once you install windows on its will split to 2 hard disk and in case of one hard disk failure u don't have windows
Hey, can I take 2 hard drives and partition out 200 gigs each and then instal raid 0 and be able to see and use the other partitions left on each drive when it is all done?
So say I have a SSD and a regular HDD. I want to use the SSD as my C: drive for the OS and a few select programs, and the HDD for all other programs and data/media storage, etc. Would I use a Raid 1 setup?
Thanks for the comment. I just realised that you do not need to raid your drives unless you want the HDD to backup the SSD. So just install both drives and forget about raid and set the SSD as boot device.
@ultimatehandyman From your personal experience with SSD company would you prefer?... I got some money for a extra upgrade, saving rest for possible upgrade to Nvidia new GPU hopefully = /.
You cannot fault Crucial for service as the SSD was delivered very quickly, however when you start reading the fine print it says that to get the best from the SSD you might have to do a fresh install of the operating system (although they sell the SSD's with a cloning kit)
It's on the disk that comes with the motherboard. Just point windows to the folder containing the raid drivers and it will choose the correct driver for you ;-)
@mitchkappen A Raid system controls the hard drives. If you install two identical hard drives in Raid 0 it shows as one large hard drive in the control panel. Raid writes to both hard drives at the same time making it faster, so it writes a bit of info to each hard drive. But if one hard drive fails you loose everything. Raid one mirrors the other drive so if you install two drives that are 1TB each it will appear as just 1TB but if one hard drive ever fails you will have a full backup.
@ultimatehandyman Okay thank you. I´ve tried it, but i cant save the raid configuration :( Now my PC has still 500GB (instead of 1TB). Probably i install on the other HDD Windows XP ^^
@ultimatehandyman Yeah i found that out so i was going to just reinstall windows 7 on the raid config and after fiddling through my mobo's raid driver i finally was able to install windows 7 onto it but when i set as the primary boot device it asks to restart and set a proper boot device or insert removable media to boot from..any help on this?
It is probably possible, but you will not get any benefits from doing it. The hard drive is the slowest part of the computer, by using raid 0 with two hard drives you can write faster to the drives, but if it is the same physical partitioned drive there will be no benefits at all- so it is pointless!
@ultimatehandyman i didn't mean that lol. what i meant was that if you take two physical hard drives and raid 0 them together, can u then partition the resulting hdd space (in other words partitioning the raid 0 config)
WOW thanks man ur the best. but uh i didnt have any drivers to load so it created a 100 mb partition. Doesnt that ruin the purpouse of Raid 0 ? Help anyone ? :P
Great series, but can you install the motherboard drivers after you have installed windows 7 by inserting the disk? Without using a usb flash drive :)
Yes, unless you are using Raid 0. In which case you will need the drivers during the windows install. If you have two optical drives you do not need to use the USB drive ;-)
So you have to have the drivers for RAID on external memory? How should I know which drivers to get loaded on a stick? One of my drives is dying and I need to know what to do once I install the new one before my drive dies and researching gets harder.
There is a folder on the disc that came with the motherboard. On that disc is a folder containing drivers, if you get that folder onto your PC via the optical drive or USB the computer should choose the correct driver when windows is being installed.
There are several different raid configurations for different hard drive setups. I used raid zero which uses two identical disks as one large disk, this means the computer can read and write faster to the hard drive/s. You can also set it up so that one hard drive copies the other hard drive, so that you always have a backup hard drive but this is much slower.
Yes Raid 1 will mirror the other drive, which is useful if you ever have an hard drive failure but it is slower than Raid 0 so you have to choose between speed or reliability. For me I needed the speed so I chose Raid 0
why you when enter in bios didnt change first boot from cd and second from hdd . so many other do it when they built new system . but you just make the raid and then boot . and second how exactly you found browse you driver with windows . i didnt get it .
The HDD is blank so if the computer searched for an operating system there it would not find it and it would then search the next device in the boot menu until it found the operating system.
The drivers were copied from the CD that came with the motherboard and placed on the USB flash device. If you point windows to the folder containing the drivers it normally selects the correct driver from that folder.
Yes, as long as you have selected raid 0 in the BIOS and you have two hard drives you just need to install the raid 0 drivers when installing the operating system. The drivers are on the CD that came with the motherboard, if you have two optical drives you can put the operating system in one drive and the motherboard drivers in the other one, otherwise you will have to copy the drivers to a USB device.
hey guys i need a little help here! :P could i clone a hdd using the CMD? and do i have to do it in windows or do i have to boot from Windows disk and run CMD there?
what if i have my RAID 0 setup in Windows XP 32 and want to upgrade to Windows 7 64bit. Does the new Windows 7 64 bit detect my RAID 0 setting? thanks
Raid 0 is a configuration that combines the two drives so they appear as one large drive, but data is written to both drives simultaneously so the computer can write and read data much faster.
Thanks for the help. I was just upgrading from a 500gb HDD to two gb HDD in raid 0. took me about 1 hour to figure out that you have to upload the raid drivers before you can install to OS. But after seeing this video I got everything straightened out. Thanks for your help.
Hello again I am now in my 14th hour trying to do this I have hit snag after snag, at the moment I can't get the drivers to be seen in the installation process, I have put them in their own folder on various types of media but they are just not seen, I have tried the original Gigabyte disc but no joy
I am just about to do this but this, I have downloaded all the drivers from gigabyte but three of them mention RAID which on is it ? my motherboard is an ex-58-ud5
i'm looking for a solution to record HD video. Does Raid double the basic read and write speeds? so if my HDD reads and writes are about 60MB/s if i get the same HDD and Raid them together would it be 120MB/s?
I'm not sure exactly how much faster raid 0 is, but the hard drive is supposed to be the bottle neck in the system.
I built this PC for editing HD video and it works extremely well. I can convert a 30 minute HD video for youtube in about 2 hours, on my other PC with only a dual core processor and single hard drive it used to take 10 hours plus.
@DJparsons89 Ideally you should get double speeds, traditional 7200 HDDs can get around 80-90MB/s so I'd be looking at about 140MB/s realistically. Note that raid 0 also raises the risks of corruption because if either drive fails, all the data is lost.
Im about to upgrade an HP computer I have had for a year and one of the things Im going to do is make a raid 0. So I dont have a disk for my motherboard for raid drivers..
okay so i set up raid 0 in the bios and raid bios and have got all the settings right (i am using 2 identical hard drives). i then put the amd raid (south bridge SB850 off the gigabyte website) drivers on my usb flash drive both the 32bit and 64bit. but when windows asked me to install the drivers it only recognised the 32bit drivers, and i am trying to install the 64bit version. why wont the drivers work, and how do i get them to work.
Thanks alot for this series of videos! This may be a stupid question, but do you buy the Windows OS on disk? or can the hard drive come pre-installed with it? Keep up the good work!
Yes you buy windows on a disk for an optical drive. I am not sure if you can get hard drives pre-installed with the operating system. Microsoft talked about doing this years ago, but I don't think it materialised (could be wrong)
I have a good question :) is it possible for example to put 2x WD caviar black 500gb drives to a raid 0 config and then put it to raid 1 with 1tb wd caviar black drive. so if one of the 500gb drives fails the data could be saved from 1tb drive. :D
ok first i love your videos THANK YOU SOO MUCH...I am a total noob when it comes to computers and i bought everything i need and was like now how do i put it together...from the frist video to the last helped me out. But why have to seperate hard drives worth 1TB when you couldve bought 1 2 TB.
what driver did u load? mine is requiring a driver and idk wth it wants? I found a forum saying tht my IDE optical drives and SATA hard drive dnt mix well and culd b the problem but I dont wanna buy a new optical drive?
Great video, can you tell me where to get the gsata driver that you saved in your usb drive?
alden849273 1 day ago
@alden849273
They are on the driver disk that is shipped with the motherboard. If you don't have that you should be able to download them from the manufacturers website.
ultimatehandyman 1 day ago
I got mine to work. It appeared the drivers were not on the CD from Alienware so I had to download them from the download page and install from the inf files from a USB drive I had. All is good now, and these instructions are pretty accurate.
GuardianXPS 3 days ago
Thx ;)
666preditor 4 days ago
so far i understand the entire video (1-5) except this... what is configurating raid 0? bios? is it necessary for new harddrive?
ItzMeNeRo 6 days ago
@ItzMeNeRo
It's only necessary if you have two hard drives and want them to work together as one to make the system faster.
ultimatehandyman 6 days ago
Not at all sure I understand why RAID-0 configuration was chosen here. Certainly it's faster--but faster for what? Surfing the Internet, writing Word docs, etc? If you are going to stream data (audio or HD video, for instance), then sure...use RAID-0. But with this installation, if one drive fails...poof, there goes your OS! There is absolutely NO fault tolerance with RAID-0, so why use it for a drive with an OS one it? You would be far better off putting your OS on a smaller drive.
tcbetka 1 week ago
@tcbetka
I needed the speed for editing HD video, hence the Raid 0
But I have since purchased an SSD for the operating system and just use the hard drives for storage now (still in Raid 0) but I also have a permanent USB backup drive plugged in. If one of the hard drives fail it is not a problem as I still have the data on the backup drive.
ultimatehandyman 1 week ago
@ultimatehandyman That is a far better solution, as you of course really don't want to be trying to stream data to drives that are also being read for program code. I would do exactly what you are doing now, in that case. If you have the room in the machine, you could maybe look at a RAID-5 system to gain some redundancy but not sacrifice the speed.
tcbetka 1 week ago
The problem I am having is the raid is seen in the bios as a stripe and in its own Array. However, when I begin installing Windows, and use the drivers from Alienware, the drives do not combine, they still appear seperate. I cant figure out how to fix this.
GuardianXPS 2 weeks ago
@GuardianXPS
Are you sure that motherboard supports Raid 0?
ultimatehandyman 2 weeks ago
I'm looking into setting up raid 0 on my pc. What driver's were you using at 5:00? Is it available at my motherboard's website? Because I tried looking and didn't know which ones I needed.
ImmortalNinja9223 2 weeks ago
@ImmortalNinja9223
If you go to your motherboards website and download several drivers, windows will choose the correct one. You might just have to navigate to each driver until the computer selects the correct one.
ultimatehandyman 2 weeks ago
Can i just ask, where did you buy all the pieces of your pc?
seses20 3 weeks ago
@seses20
I bought them from a firm that does not sell to the public (can't remember the name), sorry.
ultimatehandyman 3 weeks ago
@ultimatehandyman wow thanks for the fast repply :) and ur guides are amazing :)
seses20 3 weeks ago
you know!... thanks to you I finally got a step closer on how to make my two hard drives work as one... I have a DELL PowerEdge 800 here at work that I have been trying to get into a RAID setup. Sadly... GOOGLE has not been my best friend nor has the Dell RAID "manual" (AKA one sheet of paper telling you what to press that's it) worked either. hahah
Stickyittoyou 3 weeks ago
@Stickyittoyou
I'm glad that it has helped you ;-)
Thanks for the comment
ultimatehandyman 3 weeks ago
What was that driver he was loading at 5:00 ? I didnt do that when I installed Windows 7. Does anybody know how to get that driver for an Asus p8p67 Pro motherboard?
TheAviator789 3 weeks ago
@TheAviator789
It was the Raid 0 drivers. If you have already installed windows it is too late to use Raid 0
ultimatehandyman 3 weeks ago
@ultimatehandyman Oh right yeah, Im having a problem with my Sata Ports the 6 G/b 'S ports on my Mother Board aren't recognizing my hard drive. It will only work in the 3gb/s Slot. I'm fully aware my 2tb Seagate Hard Drive is certified for 6gb/s. Will appreciate any helpful response. Thanks.
aiwa789 3 weeks ago
@aiwa789
Probably best if you check the seagate website, you might need to install some drivers before being able to use the hard drive at 6GB/s. Unfortunately with some drives you have to mess about with drivers/firmware before you can get the most out of them!
ultimatehandyman 3 weeks ago
love the help man ur the best i figure it out
yalman32 4 weeks ago
@yalman32
Good luck with it ;-)
ultimatehandyman 4 weeks ago
yeah i did just that and it seem everything is in order
this happen before when i first set it up but i got the driver and installed seem to work untill now maybe window lost file of raid driver idk
yalman32 4 weeks ago
@yalman32
Maybe, Not sure of the best solution. Worst case scenario you will have to format and start again but that will mean loosing all data!
ultimatehandyman 4 weeks ago
ok i got two wd black 750 in raid 0 and one day upon booting up it gave me a blue screen but the two partition seem to be healthy it just that window 7 don't c it could it be that it missing drivers?
yalman32 4 weeks ago
@yalman32
So it had been working in Raid 0 before?
How do you know it is the hard drives causing the blue screen of death?
If it was working before it must of had the drivers for the Raid configuration?
ultimatehandyman 4 weeks ago
@ultimatehandyman u maybe right cuz the raid configuration seem to work just fine but one day it just stop maybe i need to make a raiddriver disk
i try everything unplug everything even my gtx 465 but no dice using on board vga
yalman32 4 weeks ago
@yalman32
Can you check the Raid configuration at startup (you can do this by hitting a key when booting normally) ?
ultimatehandyman 4 weeks ago
So do you have any advice as to what I should do? I updated the bios, downloaded the latest drivers from the Gigabyte website, yet windows will STILL not recognize that the drovers are even there.
Please help me! I just spent a lot more money than I should have on two Seagate barracuda 1tb hard drives and now I cannot get raid to work.
I will apprecate any help you can give. Thanks in advance!!
Poseidon500 1 month ago
@Poseidon500
Might be a problem with the SSD and windows/drivers.
One way to fix it for sure is remove the SSD and set up raid 0 using the 2 hard drives. Then clone the hard drives to the SSD and make the SSD the first boot device.
ultimatehandyman 1 month ago
@ultimatehandyman I don't have any SSD's and much to my embarasment I totally FORGOT to unzip the drivers that I downloaded to my SD chip. DOH!!!!
Anyhow, my RAID 0 setup is working just fine now, windows 7 64 bit totally recognized it and you all my now laugh at my stupidity! LOL!
In my defense, this was my very first time I ever attempted such a thing on this motherboard, which I may not even have had to buy, because I totally frigged up my VERY FIRST attempt on my previous mainboard
Poseidon500 1 month ago
@Poseidon500
No problem, at least you sorted it!
I thought when you typed SD it was a typo meaning SSD
ultimatehandyman 1 month ago
I appreciate the effort you put into this video, and I have attempted to do just that with my new Gigabyte GA990FXA UD5 motherboard, however, windows will not even acknowledge that the Raid drivers for the board are even there! I even disabled the recognize signed/unsigned whatever function during windows startup during installation. I put in my Sd chip ( I have no floppy drive) and the driver does nto even appear on it during windows install. It's there, I checked it on another computer,
Poseidon500 1 month ago
Thank you!!! I have this motherboard and i know how install the raid .. salutes from Mexico
dietista 1 month ago
@dietista
You are welcome.
Thanks for the comment ;-)
ultimatehandyman 1 month ago
How much money do you save by building a computer rather than buying one?
Rslord1999 1 month ago
@Rslord1999
Probably not much, but you can choose exactly which software is installed.
When I built this I was going to buy a Dell, but it came with lots of pre-installed software which could not be removed at checkout and which I did not want! The software was also not free which was the deciding factor in the purchase!
ultimatehandyman 1 month ago
question, can i set up raid 0 on 2 ssd's, but have a harddrive not in the array just for storage?
CRN090 1 month ago
@CRN090
You should be able to do.
I have one SSD here for the main boot device and then two hard drives in Raid 0 for storage, so it should work!
ultimatehandyman 1 month ago
How many hard disk drives do you need for raid 0 configuration, and must they all be identical? Also, do I just go to the motherboard manufacturer website to download the drivers?
ulgk 1 month ago
@ulgk
You need 2 hard drives for raid 0, they recommend identical hard drives so best to use them!
You should be able to get the drivers from the motherboard manufacturers website
ultimatehandyman 1 month ago
Hey! Thanks for the video. I have a question... How can I know which type of RAID (by software or hardware) supports muy motherboard? I have an Intel DH67BL. I would like to make a RAID 0 system, but only if it's by hardware...
Thanks a lot!c
114PTY507 1 month ago
@114PTY507
Your motherboard manual should tell you, if you don't have the manual you should be able to download one from the manufacturers website
ultimatehandyman 1 month ago
and after windows 7 we can play battlefield 3
yeeeeeeeh
dbqp01 1 month ago
i am going to use the intel sata 3 ports, what raid driver do i need to download? there are 6 to choose from on the motherboard website.. my mobo is Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3. help would be much appreciated!
c5505k 1 month ago
@c5505k
Just download them all, then direct the computer to the folder containing the drivers and it should select the correct one ;-)
ultimatehandyman 1 month ago
@ultimatehandyman thanks.
c5505k 1 month ago
Hey
Is there linux drivers? I would like to use this on CentOS. Do you think it would work ... also what type of read/write speeds are you getting.
Thanks
MrLalasd 1 month ago
@MrLalasd
Sorry I have no idea
ultimatehandyman 1 month ago
Why would I need raid 0 what is the benefit ?once you install windows on its will split to 2 hard disk and in case of one hard disk failure u don't have windows
haguylerman 1 month ago
@haguylerman
Raid 0 makes your system faster, but if one hard drive fails you loose everything!
ultimatehandyman 1 month ago
Hey, can I take 2 hard drives and partition out 200 gigs each and then instal raid 0 and be able to see and use the other partitions left on each drive when it is all done?
JEHERETIC 1 month ago
@JEHERETIC
It should be possible
ultimatehandyman 1 month ago
@JEHERETIC Of course.
zomgwtfbbqbagel 1 month ago
So say I have a SSD and a regular HDD. I want to use the SSD as my C: drive for the OS and a few select programs, and the HDD for all other programs and data/media storage, etc. Would I use a Raid 1 setup?
leviandurai1232 2 months ago
@leviandurai1232
Yes, just make certain that the SSD is set as the first boot device
ultimatehandyman 2 months ago
@ultimatehandyman Awesome, thanks! Great videos by the way, its hard to find good quality videos on how to do it step by step!
leviandurai1232 2 months ago
@leviandurai1232
Thanks for the comment. I just realised that you do not need to raid your drives unless you want the HDD to backup the SSD. So just install both drives and forget about raid and set the SSD as boot device.
ultimatehandyman 2 months ago
@ultimatehandyman From your personal experience with SSD company would you prefer?... I got some money for a extra upgrade, saving rest for possible upgrade to Nvidia new GPU hopefully = /.
Cashmachinez 2 months ago
@Cashmachinez
You cannot fault Crucial for service as the SSD was delivered very quickly, however when you start reading the fine print it says that to get the best from the SSD you might have to do a fresh install of the operating system (although they sell the SSD's with a cloning kit)
ultimatehandyman 2 months ago
So where is part 5????? Anyone can help?
mohamadjalloul 2 months ago
@mohamadjalloul
This is part 5
What are you stuck with?
ultimatehandyman 2 months ago
Question where did you get the driver and how do I know which driver I need?
lazimofo90 2 months ago
@lazimofo90
It's on the disk that comes with the motherboard. Just point windows to the folder containing the raid drivers and it will choose the correct driver for you ;-)
ultimatehandyman 2 months ago
can i upgrade my laptop from an intel celeron to an i3 proccessor
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Maybe a stupid question but anyways, what is ''RAID'' . Is it something like raid 0= 2 HDD's together and RAID 1= Just a single hard drive?
mitchkappen 2 months ago
Maybe a stupid question but anyways, what is ''RAID'' . Is it something like raid 0= 2 HDD's together and RAID 1= Just a single hard drive?
mitchkappen 2 months ago
@mitchkappen A Raid system controls the hard drives. If you install two identical hard drives in Raid 0 it shows as one large hard drive in the control panel. Raid writes to both hard drives at the same time making it faster, so it writes a bit of info to each hard drive. But if one hard drive fails you loose everything. Raid one mirrors the other drive so if you install two drives that are 1TB each it will appear as just 1TB but if one hard drive ever fails you will have a full backup.
ultimatehandyman 2 months ago
What Driver do you install from the USB Flash (Motherboard, HDD) and how did you got it???
KalarotLP 2 months ago
@KalarotLP
It was the RAID driver and it comes on the CD that is supplied with the motherboard
ultimatehandyman 2 months ago
@ultimatehandyman Okay thank you. I´ve tried it, but i cant save the raid configuration :( Now my PC has still 500GB (instead of 1TB). Probably i install on the other HDD Windows XP ^^
KalarotLP 2 months ago
@KalarotLP
It sounds like it has done a RAID 1 configuration. Are there two identical SATA hard drives connected to the PC?
ultimatehandyman 2 months ago
how can i install raid drivers for windows 7 without reinstalling it?
YuuExussum 2 months ago
@YuuExussum
I don't think you can install them afterwards as the operating system will already be on the one drive!
ultimatehandyman 2 months ago
@ultimatehandyman Yeah i found that out so i was going to just reinstall windows 7 on the raid config and after fiddling through my mobo's raid driver i finally was able to install windows 7 onto it but when i set as the primary boot device it asks to restart and set a proper boot device or insert removable media to boot from..any help on this?
YuuExussum 2 months ago
Is it possible to partition a raid 0 configuration?
airsoftrulzpaintball 2 months ago
@airsoftrulzpaintball
It is probably possible, but you will not get any benefits from doing it. The hard drive is the slowest part of the computer, by using raid 0 with two hard drives you can write faster to the drives, but if it is the same physical partitioned drive there will be no benefits at all- so it is pointless!
ultimatehandyman 2 months ago
@ultimatehandyman i didn't mean that lol. what i meant was that if you take two physical hard drives and raid 0 them together, can u then partition the resulting hdd space (in other words partitioning the raid 0 config)
airsoftrulzpaintball 2 months ago
@airsoftrulzpaintball
Sorry, I have no idea
ultimatehandyman 2 months ago
Hello ultimate I really need your help with this stuff. Please send me a private msg when you can. Thank you
ChaldoPrince04 3 months ago
Hey thanks man ur the best!!! :D
What if i didnt load the drivers?
the setup made an extra 100mb system reserved partition, but doesnt creating partitions ruin the purpouse of RAID 0? :S
HELP needed!
Sorry for bad english
Phenom69ll 3 months ago
@Phenom69ll
How many hard drives do you have?
If just one partitioned hard drive, raid 0 will not help at all
ultimatehandyman 3 months ago
@ultimatehandyman i have two WD5000AAKS 7200 500
im already running windows but the boot times are slower than before.
also every time i boot up now, the AMD raid utility 2008 launches and searches for drivers! how could i disable that?
thanks
Phenom69ll 3 months ago
@Phenom69ll
If you install the drivers it should stop searching for them in future.
ultimatehandyman 3 months ago
@ultimatehandyman i'll just run a disk benchmark and see how it goes... :P
how can i get the RAID drivers anyway? from the WD website or?
do i need to upgrade from AMD 2008 to a newer version or is it just fine if it supports vista?
Phenom69ll 3 months ago
@Phenom69ll
You should have them with the motherboard or the motherboard manufacturers website ;-)
ultimatehandyman 3 months ago
@ultimatehandyman Also i have amd PhenomII 9550 x4CPU and 780G motherboard.
Phenom69ll 3 months ago
WOW thanks man ur the best. but uh i didnt have any drivers to load so it created a 100 mb partition. Doesnt that ruin the purpouse of Raid 0 ? Help anyone ? :P
Phenom69ll 3 months ago
@Phenom69ll You should have RAID drivers on your motherboard CD, copy to usb dive and install during windows installation process
Hope it helps
shah1996 3 months ago
Great series, but can you install the motherboard drivers after you have installed windows 7 by inserting the disk? Without using a usb flash drive :)
xXIROI3I3IEXx 3 months ago
@xXIROI3I3IEXx
Yes, unless you are using Raid 0. In which case you will need the drivers during the windows install. If you have two optical drives you do not need to use the USB drive ;-)
ultimatehandyman 3 months ago
So you have to have the drivers for RAID on external memory? How should I know which drivers to get loaded on a stick? One of my drives is dying and I need to know what to do once I install the new one before my drive dies and researching gets harder.
wizzlewazzle66 3 months ago
@wizzlewazzle66
There is a folder on the disc that came with the motherboard. On that disc is a folder containing drivers, if you get that folder onto your PC via the optical drive or USB the computer should choose the correct driver when windows is being installed.
ultimatehandyman 3 months ago
can you use 1 hard drive to set into raid 0
cnks1 4 months ago
@cnks1
No, you need two hard drives for raid 0
ultimatehandyman 3 months ago
@ultimatehandyman ok tnks now time for me to buy another hdd and activate raid 0 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cnks1 3 months ago
@cnks1
You are welcome.
The manufacturers recommend identical hard drives for raid 0 ;-)
ultimatehandyman 3 months ago
What is raid configuration?
TKuja1 4 months ago
@TKuja1
There are several different raid configurations for different hard drive setups. I used raid zero which uses two identical disks as one large disk, this means the computer can read and write faster to the hard drive/s. You can also set it up so that one hard drive copies the other hard drive, so that you always have a backup hard drive but this is much slower.
ultimatehandyman 4 months ago
@ultimatehandyman Alright, cheers
So one hard driving copying the other is Raid 1? Or is Raid 1 something entirely different
If it is then I definitely don't want that
TKuja1 4 months ago
@TKuja1
Yes Raid 1 will mirror the other drive, which is useful if you ever have an hard drive failure but it is slower than Raid 0 so you have to choose between speed or reliability. For me I needed the speed so I chose Raid 0
ultimatehandyman 4 months ago
@ultimatehandyman I suppose if you have large hard drive it would be a good idea
Thanks for telling me, couldn't find this info anywhere
TKuja1 4 months ago
@TKuja1
You are welcome.
Thanks for the comments
ultimatehandyman 4 months ago
why you when enter in bios didnt change first boot from cd and second from hdd . so many other do it when they built new system . but you just make the raid and then boot . and second how exactly you found browse you driver with windows . i didnt get it .
thanks.
drreik 4 months ago
@drreik
The HDD is blank so if the computer searched for an operating system there it would not find it and it would then search the next device in the boot menu until it found the operating system.
The drivers were copied from the CD that came with the motherboard and placed on the USB flash device. If you point windows to the folder containing the drivers it normally selects the correct driver from that folder.
ultimatehandyman 4 months ago
@ultimatehandyman so the driver gsata folder was driver of the hdd for 64 operate system right?
so for me that i will built a WD 750gb how can i do it . the same you did with your 2trb?
thanks for the quick reply . i appreciated it .
drreik 4 months ago
@drreik
Yes, as long as you have selected raid 0 in the BIOS and you have two hard drives you just need to install the raid 0 drivers when installing the operating system. The drivers are on the CD that came with the motherboard, if you have two optical drives you can put the operating system in one drive and the motherboard drivers in the other one, otherwise you will have to copy the drivers to a USB device.
ultimatehandyman 4 months ago
hey guys i need a little help here! :P could i clone a hdd using the CMD? and do i have to do it in windows or do i have to boot from Windows disk and run CMD there?
Phenom69ll 4 months ago
@Phenom69ll
Not sure about cloning from CMD, but you can get software to clone one hard drive to another, some programs are free!
I think if you own a seagate hard drive you can install a program called maxblast to clone one hard drive to the other.
ultimatehandyman 4 months ago
@jmanuellomeli
I'm glad it helped.
Thanks for the comment
ultimatehandyman 4 months ago
what if i have my RAID 0 setup in Windows XP 32 and want to upgrade to Windows 7 64bit. Does the new Windows 7 64 bit detect my RAID 0 setting? thanks
kdkcproduction 4 months ago
@kdkcproduction
Not sure, sorry!
ultimatehandyman 4 months ago
What is a Raid making 2 hdds into one?
mrqwerty123456 4 months ago
@mrqwerty123456
Raid 0 is a configuration that combines the two drives so they appear as one large drive, but data is written to both drives simultaneously so the computer can write and read data much faster.
ultimatehandyman 4 months ago
I suppose to can't make an image of an OS and install on a RAID config? I Guess I'll have to re-install windows and install the raid driver at setup.
omgitsdefault 4 months ago
@omgitsdefault
I think you are correct.
ultimatehandyman 4 months ago
Thanks for the help. I was just upgrading from a 500gb HDD to two gb HDD in raid 0. took me about 1 hour to figure out that you have to upload the raid drivers before you can install to OS. But after seeing this video I got everything straightened out. Thanks for your help.
elidcarter 4 months ago
@elidcarter
You are welcome, I am glad it helped!
Thanks for the comment
ultimatehandyman 4 months ago
how much did the build cost and how long to build ?
lestube001 5 months ago
@lestube001
It cost about £1200 for the parts in December 2009
To build it took about 4 hours, but that was because I was filming at the same time which takes considerably longer
ultimatehandyman 5 months ago
@ultimatehandyman thanks for the reply
lestube001 5 months ago
@lestube001
No problem, thanks for the comments ;-)
ultimatehandyman 5 months ago
Hello again I am now in my 14th hour trying to do this I have hit snag after snag, at the moment I can't get the drivers to be seen in the installation process, I have put them in their own folder on various types of media but they are just not seen, I have tried the original Gigabyte disc but no joy
fincaman2 5 months ago
@fincaman2
Normally you have to point windows to the folder containing the correct drivers and windows will install the correct one.
What model is your motherboard and which driver are you trying to install?
ultimatehandyman 5 months ago
I am just about to do this but this, I have downloaded all the drivers from gigabyte but three of them mention RAID which on is it ? my motherboard is an ex-58-ud5
fincaman2 5 months ago
@fincaman2
Download them all, windows should choose the correct driver from the 3
ultimatehandyman 5 months ago
Man, I wish I had your computer.
sonicfuker 5 months ago 2
and how do i get the driver for raid that you had on your usb flash drive ?
moreczbogdan 5 months ago
@moreczbogdan
It should be on the disk that came with the motherboard, or you can often download them from the motherboard manufacturers website
ultimatehandyman 5 months ago
nice running raid 0+1 on gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4-B3 not bad 4x1TB pulls numbers between 250-400Mbps
efukt82 5 months ago
i'm looking for a solution to record HD video. Does Raid double the basic read and write speeds? so if my HDD reads and writes are about 60MB/s if i get the same HDD and Raid them together would it be 120MB/s?
DJparsons89 5 months ago
@DJparsons89
I'm not sure exactly how much faster raid 0 is, but the hard drive is supposed to be the bottle neck in the system.
I built this PC for editing HD video and it works extremely well. I can convert a 30 minute HD video for youtube in about 2 hours, on my other PC with only a dual core processor and single hard drive it used to take 10 hours plus.
ultimatehandyman 5 months ago
@DJparsons89 Ideally you should get double speeds, traditional 7200 HDDs can get around 80-90MB/s so I'd be looking at about 140MB/s realistically. Note that raid 0 also raises the risks of corruption because if either drive fails, all the data is lost.
CrazyMonkey124 5 months ago
would this work for an asus G53sx?
Averyboredperson1 5 months ago
3:19 1 Gig hardrives? lolz xD
TheLycanjake1 5 months ago
@TheLycanjake1
Yes, it was an example. If you have two 1GB hard drives it would show up as a 2GB hard drive.
They used to make 1GB hard drives you know LOL ;-)
ultimatehandyman 5 months ago
Im about to upgrade an HP computer I have had for a year and one of the things Im going to do is make a raid 0. So I dont have a disk for my motherboard for raid drivers..
ampix0 5 months ago
@ampix0
If you search the HP website for your exact motherboard, you should be able to download the drivers
ultimatehandyman 5 months ago
where to find the raid 0 driver's for win 7.?
msi48701gb 5 months ago
@msi48701gb
They are on the disc that came with the motherboard!
ultimatehandyman 5 months ago
SOMEONE HELP PLEASE.
okay so i set up raid 0 in the bios and raid bios and have got all the settings right (i am using 2 identical hard drives). i then put the amd raid (south bridge SB850 off the gigabyte website) drivers on my usb flash drive both the 32bit and 64bit. but when windows asked me to install the drivers it only recognised the 32bit drivers, and i am trying to install the 64bit version. why wont the drivers work, and how do i get them to work.
liv3rpoolfc 6 months ago
@liv3rpoolfc
Are you certain that your motherboard supports 64 bit?
ultimatehandyman 6 months ago
Thanks alot for this series of videos! This may be a stupid question, but do you buy the Windows OS on disk? or can the hard drive come pre-installed with it? Keep up the good work!
95philbert 6 months ago
@95philbert
Thanks for the comment ;-)
Yes you buy windows on a disk for an optical drive. I am not sure if you can get hard drives pre-installed with the operating system. Microsoft talked about doing this years ago, but I don't think it materialised (could be wrong)
ultimatehandyman 6 months ago
I have a good question :) is it possible for example to put 2x WD caviar black 500gb drives to a raid 0 config and then put it to raid 1 with 1tb wd caviar black drive. so if one of the 500gb drives fails the data could be saved from 1tb drive. :D
compad 6 months ago
@gunther6412
You are welcome.
Thanks for the comment ;-)
ultimatehandyman 6 months ago
change the block value from 128 to 32 it will give you more boost in performance..
msi48701gb 6 months ago
your video helps a lot...now i know how to configure raid 0 on my gigabyte mobo...thx..
SkylineClhS 6 months ago
@SkylineClhS
You are welcome.
Thanks for the comment ;-)
ultimatehandyman 6 months ago
i would just like to drop by and say hi and tell you how much i appreciate your video. :)
bien2t 6 months ago
@bien2t
Thanks for the comment
ultimatehandyman 6 months ago
Please help, do i need to format both hdds first or just 1 and install windows 7 on my old vista?
Phenom69ll 6 months ago
@Phenom69ll
You are better off formating both of them
ultimatehandyman 6 months ago
@ultimatehandyman ill just clone my hdd to another :P
Phenom69ll 6 months ago
ok first i love your videos THANK YOU SOO MUCH...I am a total noob when it comes to computers and i bought everything i need and was like now how do i put it together...from the frist video to the last helped me out. But why have to seperate hard drives worth 1TB when you couldve bought 1 2 TB.
AceSkills 6 months ago
@AceSkills
Thanks for the comment.
It is faster to have two hard drives in raid zero than one large hard drive.
Raid zero writes to both hard drives at the same time, so it is faster than writing to one hard drive.
ultimatehandyman 6 months ago
Bajous! XD haha cheers thnx for the explanation!
sale666 6 months ago
what driver did u load? mine is requiring a driver and idk wth it wants? I found a forum saying tht my IDE optical drives and SATA hard drive dnt mix well and culd b the problem but I dont wanna buy a new optical drive?
XChickeNTenderSX 6 months ago
@XChickeNTenderSX
I did not load the driver- if you direct windows to the folder containing the drivers it should select the correct driver.
ultimatehandyman 6 months ago
@ultimatehandyman Damn too bad I stopped using mine as well because I upgraded to a 24 inch 1080p HDTV , still crazy odds Cheers Mate :D
TrickyStylez 6 months ago
Holy shit you have my monitor! LOL! Cheer m8 :)
TrickyStylez 6 months ago
@TrickyStylez
That monitor stopped working a few months back and has now been sent to monitor heaven lol
ultimatehandyman 6 months ago
What a fantastic password hint:D
lllXchrisXlll 7 months ago
@lllXchrisXlll
I never need a password hint ;-)
Normally I never even put a password on a computer, but this time I had no choice ;-(
ultimatehandyman 7 months ago
@ultimatehandyman you could have just pressed next without entering a password
crystalanimation 6 months ago
@crystalanimation
No I could not, it would not let me continue without entering a password!
I have had computers on Win 98, Win XP and Vista and I never entered a password. On windows 7 I had to enter a password ;-)
ultimatehandyman 6 months ago
2 questions - How much did it cost you to make? and What are the computers specs ?
Thanks
INT3RVENTiiON 7 months ago
@INT3RVENTiiON
About £1200 in December 2009
Coolermaster HAF 922 case, GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD3R Motherboard, Intel core I7 920 processor ,Reaper OCZ HPC DDR3 Ram, Stealth extreme PSU, MSI 1gb Graphics card, 2* 1TB western digital hard drives, Windows 7, DVD burner
ultimatehandyman 7 months ago