The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    RAID on alienware 18

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by NSSAssassin, Jan 6, 2015.

  1. NSSAssassin

    NSSAssassin Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I have 2x750gb hard drives(raid 0) with 64gb ssd cache, I was wondering if I could disable raid on the two larger drives, as to use them as two drives, this way if one fails, I dont have another useles part of an array.
     
    NSSAssassin, Jan 6, 2015
    #1
  2. TBoneSan

    TBoneSan Laptop Fiend

    Reputations:
    4,460
    Messages:
    5,558
    Likes Received:
    5,798
    Trophy Points:
    681
    You can break the raid 0 array but you'll lose all your data in the process. You'd need to back up everything before you did it.
     
    TBoneSan, Jan 6, 2015
    #2
  3. pathfindercod

    pathfindercod Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    1,940
    Messages:
    2,344
    Likes Received:
    2,349
    Trophy Points:
    181
    Get some clone softwre like Macrium free or something make a backup inage to a external HD. Break the raid reformat and theN restore the backup inage to a single drive. I would actually recommend removing one of tHe drives completely and do the restore then boot up the machine to make sure all went well and then adding the second drive back. That way the bios and windows establishes the boot drive then you can add the other as d drive or whatever letter you desire.
     
    pathfindercod, Jan 6, 2015
    #3
  4. sy5tem

    sy5tem Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    49
    Messages:
    341
    Likes Received:
    99
    Trophy Points:
    41
    also..

    if you want to use other drive as spare drive you might want to go in RAID 1 ( redondant ) like this you always have 1:1 drive copy if any 1 of those 2 drive fail you still can use the computer . , while in raid 0 if any 1 fail you lose all data.
     
    sy5tem, Jan 6, 2015
    #4