2 harddrives at once?

[Enemy12]

ok, im totally new to this so please exscuse such a lame question..but

i just bought 2 western digital 36 GB raptor harddrives, i wanto run them in unison...( i think the word RAID has something to do with it), again sorry but im no expert.

ive no idea where to start or what to do, please help me out.

thanx

 

[Freestone]

Would be helpful if you would post your motherboard model and manufacturer.

Comprehensive RAID documentation:

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/index.htm

 

[Enemy12]

motherboard:

MotherBoard- ASUS A7N8X-E-Deluxe NFORCE2, Dual DDR 400 mhz, 400 FSB, Dual Lan with Gigabit, SATA RAID

thanx alot for the guide

 

[Freestone]

Not sure on how to proceed with help at this point. You'll have to decide if you want speed with no data protection (RAID 0) or data mirroring (RAID 1). Chapter 5 of the user manual describes the creation of your RAID array.

What OS are you using, and do you plan on booting from the RAID array?

 

[zbnet]

It's almost pointless doing RAID 0 on a desktop PC. RAID 1 buys you protection from disk failure with hardly any noticable performance hit (slightly quicker reads, slightly slower writes), and is increasingly feasible now that disk proices are falling to commodity level.

 

[Enemy12]

ok, my OS is windows XP

rain 1 or 0...

no idea, lol

i want it to go fast!, its basicly a 100% gaming PC, im building it to handle all of my games at top performance.