Despite the power level of a computer device, it has one weak point, presented hard drive. Exactly this element components have built-in mechanics. All parameters of the processor and other elements will turn out to be untenable if the computer has a HDD with operating principles that have long since become a thing of the past.
Today, there are two methods to speed up the functioning of a computer device. One of them is to purchase an expensive and high-quality SSD or use the capabilities of the motherboard to the fullest. It may be required to configure Raid 0 of the array for a couple of hard drives at once.
Setting up a Raid 0 array and installing Windows 10 on it. How to make the operating system work faster
In order to create a Raid0 array and install Windows 10, we need two hard drives. Even the most inexperienced users, using modern motherboards, were able to cope with this task without much difficulty.
It should be noted that for this procedure you can use hard drives the most different sizes. These can be hard drives with a capacity of 1 TB and 250 Gigabytes.
Raid0 array is a disk array of several hard drives at once. There is no redundancy. If we talk in simple words, then this is the combination of several hard drives into one disk array. All data will arrive on both of these disks almost simultaneously. At the same time, the speed of the system increases. One of the conditions for using this technology is that the motherboard of a particular computer device has Raid0 support.
Many may wonder about the lack of redundancy. The use of Raid is due to the fact that it is necessary to protect the personal data of users that is stored on the computer’s hard drive. Creating a Raid 1 array immediately provides double data protection, because if one hard drive becomes unusable, copies are stored on the second. Raid 0 does not write all data to multiple hard drives at once. She divides them into sections and writes them to different hard drives. The speed of the computer is high, but after one of the hard drives fails, the second one will not have copies of the disappeared information.
Those who developed Raid technology simply could not consider Raid 0 secure because it has no redundancy. Therefore, she was assigned the number 0.
However, it should be noted that it is not very often that you have to deal with the problem of failure hard drive. In addition, if you combine two hard drives at once in Raid 0, you can use them as one hard drive. If you copy your personal data onto storage media from time to time, you can avoid losing it in the future.
First, we can install one of the hard drives that we are going to use and check what its read write speed is. There are several programs available for this purpose. For example, CrystalDiskMark and ATTO Disk Benchmark.
You must first connect the hard drive to the motherboard and then turn on the computer device.
After checking, you can begin setting up Raid 0 in the BIOS and installing node. operating system.
Setting up Raid0 array
First, you need to connect two hard drives that we have to the motherboard at once.
After turning on the computer device, you need to go to the BIOS. While the computer is booting, press the Del button on the keyboard.
In the new window, select the Advanced section at the top and find the SATA Configuration item in the list.
In order to enter the Raid configuration, you need to press the keyboard shortcut CTRL + I in the BIOS.
In the window that appears, select Raid Volume and press Enter.
It is on this page that you need to make the main settings for the Raid 0 array being created.
To enter the name Raid 0, you must first press the spacebar and then enter it.
By using the Tab button, you can move to the items below.
Raid Level you need to select Raid (Stripe).
In the section where the size of the hard drive is indicated, everything should be left unchanged.
In the Capacity parameter, you must leave the automatically configured volume and press Enter.
No further changes need to be made. Just scroll down and click on Create Volume and Enter.
On the warning page, you need to select the answer Yes and press the Y button on the keyboard.
Thus, it turns out that Raid 0 is now in working order. To exit you need to press Esc.
In the new window, click on Y.
In this case, after each turn on the computer device, you will be prompted to press the Ctrl+I key combination to go to the Raid control panel.
Installing Windows 10 on Raid 0 array
First you need to connect to computer device flash drive for downloading. Next, you should reboot it and enter through BIOS. There you need to set the boot priority of the flash drive.
Installing Windows 10 should be done using the most common method.
After installation, you need to go to the partition with hard drives. There you can see that the system sees two hard drives as a single unit with a capacity of 500 GB.
This is mirroring your data across multiple hard drives x, if one drive fails, then all information remains safe on the other. You and I bought two identical hard drives and combined them programmatically into an independent array of inexpensive disks, but this instruction will not work if you want to install an operating system on RAID 1 Windows system, in this case you will have to act a little more complicated.
How to set up a RAID 1 array and install Windows 7, 8.1, 10 on it
After reading previous articles about creating a software RAID 1 array using the operating system, you will of course ask the question: “How can I install the system itself on a RAID 1 array or is it possible to transfer a ready-made and configured Windows with programs to a raid array. After all, even a hard drive with an installed operating system can suddenly break down, and not just a secondary one hard drive with files? Losing the operating system with everyone installed applications, in the absence backup copy, can put any organization out of work for several days, so I consider it mandatory to create a RAID 1 array at the workplace and install Windows on it.
- Note: Friends, in addition to RAID 1 array, there is also .
In today's article we will assemble a RAID 1 array from two hard drives on the mother's ASUS board and install Windows 10 on it
Friends, of course you can not install anything again, but simply enable the technology in the BIOS RAID, and then transfer existing Windows to it using various programs, but we will do this in the following articles, and today we will produce easy installation systems.
If you want to build a RAID 1 array and install an operating system on it, then again you will need two hard drives or two solid state drive SSD, and your motherboard must support RAID technology. For example, let's take two hard drives with a capacity of 250 GB each.
We install hard drives into the system unit.
To configure the system with RAID array, the first thing you need to do is enable the corresponding option in the BIOS and this is done very simply. It is impossible to describe the corresponding settings of all existing BIOS types in one article; in this article I will enable RAID on the ASUS motherboard, and in the following articles I will try to show similar settings on motherboards GIGABYTE and ASRock.
Turn on the computer and enter the BIOS by pressing DEL during boot. Go to the tab Advance d, option SATA Configuration
SATA Mode Selection set to position RAID.
HotPlug- (hot plug) set to Enabled for hard drives combined into an array.
To save the changes made, click F10 and choose
After enabling RAID technology in the BIOS, you will be prompted to press on the monitor screen during boot for a few seconds. keyboard shortcut(CTRL-I) to enter RAID configuration settings.
You can also see two hard drives connected to ports 4 and 5 SATA: Maxtor and WD, which are not yet in a RAID array (Non-RAID Disk). Click CTRL-I.
In the initial settings window, select using the arrows on the keyboard Create a RAID Volume (Create RAID Volume) and press Enter.
In this window we make basic settings for the RAID array.
Name(Name RAID array). Press the space bar and enter a name,
for example "RAID 1 new" and press Enter. Move lower using the key Tab.
RAID Level: (RAID level). We will create RAID1(Mirror) - "mirroring" - if one of the disks fails, exact copy the data will remain on another disk and the controller will immediately switch to using the duplicate disk. Select this level using the arrows on the keyboard.
Capacity(volume) is set automatically. The capacity of our two 500 GB disks turns into 250 GB, since we use the RAID1 (Mirror) level and our two hard drives work as one.
We don’t change anything else and move to the last point Create Volume and press Enter.
A warning appears:
WARNING: ALL DATA ON SELECTED DISKS WILL BE LOST.
Are you sure you want to create this volume? (Y/N):
WARNING: ALL DATA on the selected drives will be lost.
Are you sure you want to create this volume? (Y/N):
Press Y (Yes) on the keyboard.
RAID 1 has been created and is in the Normal status. To exit, press the key on the keyboard Esc
Are you sure you want to exit(Are you sure you want to exit? Press Y(Yes).
The computer restarts. We enter the boot menu and select boot from installation flash drive Kingston containing Windows files 10. If you cannot get into the computer boot menu, then in BIOS.
As you can see, the RAID 1 array we just created with the name " RAID 1 new" is also in the boot menu.
Loading from a flash drive into the program Windows installations 10. Next, we proceed as with a normal installation of the operating system.
Install
We accept the license agreement
Custom: Windows installation only
The Win 10 installer sees two hard drives combined into a RAID array as one.
Skip this step
Use standard settings
Create a local account
Enter a name account and click Finish.
Windows 10 is installed on a RAID 1 array.
Device Manager.
Disk management.
RAID 1 array and flash drive with Windows 10.
Friends, if one hard drive in an independent array fails, then operating system will boot from a second working hard drive, that is, nothing will happen to your data, but we’ll talk about how to recreate a RAID array in the next article.
I have a computer whose motherboard is built on AMD chipset 780G and southbridge SB700 (MSI 760G-P33). This motherboard has a built-in RAID controller (AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller). The whole problem is that they appeared additional disks and it was decided to combine them into RAID. To do this, it was necessary to change the operation type of the SATA controller from AHCI to RAID and configure disk subsystem, which is, in fact, what I did. Troubles were not long in coming; Windows Server 2008 R2 did not want to start without additional drivers. I couldn’t find a method online on how to solve this problem without reinstalling Windows, because the controller drivers are supplied as preinstall, and in installed system cannot be implemented. There was no desire to reinstall Windows, so an idea was born on how to solve the problem.
The first thing I did was set up windows archiving, then created a system recovery image. Rebooted the computer, changed the controller parameters, started booting from installation disk windows server 2008 r2 and chose to restore the system from the previously created image. After the installer reached the disk, I clicked the install drivers button, selected the RAID controller drivers, and clicked OK. The drivers were integrated into the system and the recovery process began.
All this action took me about 40 minutes, Windows successfully started and installed the necessary drivers.
As a result, without actually reinstalling windows, I was able to change the controller type from AHCI to RAID. If you have any questions, welcome to the comments!
This is a mirror image of your data on several hard drives; if one drive fails, then all the information remains safe on the other. We bought two identical hard drives and combined them programmatically into an independent array of inexpensive disks, but these instructions will not work if you want to install the Windows operating system on RAID 1, in which case you will have to act a little more complicated.
How to set up a RAID 1 array and install Windows 7, 8.1, 10 on it
After reading previous articles about creating a software RAID 1 array using the operating system, you will of course ask the question: “How can I install the system itself on a RAID 1 array or is it possible to transfer a ready-made and configured Windows with programs to a raid array. After all, a hard drive with an installed operating system can unexpectedly break down, and not just a secondary hard drive with files?” The loss of an operating system with all installed applications, in the absence of a backup copy, can put any organization out of work for several days, so I consider it mandatory to create a RAID 1 array at the workplace and install Windows on it.
- Note: Friends, in addition to RAID 1 array, there is also .
In today's article we will assemble a RAID 1 array of two hard drives on an ASUS motherboard and install Windows 10 on it
Friends, of course you can not install anything again, but simply enable the technology in the BIOS RAID, and then transfer existing Windows to it using various programs, but we will do this in the following articles, and today we will perform a simple installation of the system.
If you want to build a RAID 1 array and install an operating system on it, then again you will need two hard drives or two solid-state drives SSD drive, and your motherboard must support RAID technology. For example, let's take two hard drives with a capacity of 250 GB each.
We install hard drives into the system unit.
To configure a system with a RAID array, the first thing you need to do is enable the appropriate option in the BIOS and this is done very simply. It is impossible to describe the corresponding settings of all existing BIOS types in one article; in this article I will enable RAID on the ASUS motherboard, and in the following articles I will try to show similar settings on GIGABYTE and ASRock motherboards.
Turn on the computer and enter the BIOS by pressing DEL during boot. Go to the tab Advance d, option SATA Configuration
SATA Mode Selection set to position RAID.
HotPlug- (hot plug) set to Enabled for hard drives combined into an array.
To save the changes made, click F10 and choose
After enabling RAID technology in the BIOS, you will be prompted to press the keyboard shortcut (CTRL-I) on the monitor screen during boot for a few seconds to enter the RAID configuration settings.
You can also see two hard drives connected to ports 4 and 5 SATA: Maxtor and WD, which are not yet in a RAID array (Non-RAID Disk). Click CTRL-I.
In the initial settings window, select using the arrows on the keyboard Create a RAID Volume (Create RAID Volume) and press Enter.
In this window we make basic settings for the RAID array.
Name(Name RAID array). Press the space bar and enter a name,
for example "RAID 1 new" and press Enter. Move lower using the key Tab.
RAID Level: (RAID level). We will create RAID1 (Mirror) - "mirroring" - if one of the disks fails, an exact copy of the data will remain on the other disk and the controller will immediately switch to using the backup disk. Select this level using the arrows on the keyboard.
Capacity(volume) is set automatically. The capacity of our two 500 GB disks turns into 250 GB, since we use the RAID1 (Mirror) level and our two hard drives work as one.
We don’t change anything else and move to the last point Create Volume and press Enter.
A warning appears:
WARNING: ALL DATA ON SELECTED DISKS WILL BE LOST.
Are you sure you want to create this volume? (Y/N):
WARNING: ALL DATA on the selected drives will be lost.
Are you sure you want to create this volume? (Y/N):
Press Y (Yes) on the keyboard.
RAID 1 has been created and is in the Normal status. To exit, press the key on the keyboard Esc
Are you sure you want to exit(Are you sure you want to exit? Press Y(Yes).
The computer restarts. We enter the boot menu and select boot from the installation Kingston flash drives containing Windows 10 files.If you cannot get into the computer boot menu, then in BIOS.
As you can see, the RAID 1 array we just created with the name " RAID 1 new" is also in the boot menu.
We boot from the flash drive into the Windows 10 installer. Next, we proceed as during a normal installation of the operating system.
Install
We accept the license agreement
Custom: Windows installation only
The Win 10 installer sees two hard drives combined into a RAID array as one.
Skip this step
Use standard settings
Create a local account
Enter the account name and click Finish.
Windows 10 is installed on a RAID 1 array.
Device Manager.
Disk management.
RAID 1 array and flash drive with Windows 10.
Friends, if one hard drive in an independent array fails, then the operating system will boot from the second working hard drive, that is, nothing will happen to your data, but we’ll talk about how to recreate a RAID array in the next article.
