7811fx going raid 0

So I decided that its time to go raid 0 . So I just ordered a "Seagate Momentus 7200.2 ST9200420AS 200GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive" for $79.99 from newegg which I thought was an amazing deal . I am very new to raid 0 and have never done it before. Will I see a big difference or not really? What can I look for in better performance? Have I made a good choice? Thanks guys

 

Well im pack rat so i prefer space over back ups, but congratulations on your new buy !!! Im sure performance of writing / reading will go up. not to mention your data i snow 100% safer than before . (100% safer, not 100% safe let me make that clear)

 

justin.. u do know that RAID 1 is the one that acts as a mirror...

 

lol... think you need to research raid a bit more before you post about it no offense.

raid 0 sacrifices safety for performance
raid 1 sacrifices disk space for safety

you can't do both at the same time on the same disks....

 

RAID does not work with Acronis, so if you are going to use an image of your computer to restore it, be aware!!!

 

Jakamo5 how was the performance increase in raid 0? Was it big?

 

What Acronis did you use? I have a RAID 0 on my desktop and was able to ghost it onto another SATA drive using Acronis with ZERO issues!

@ Daedric: From my experience, RAID 0 only shows it's true performance in apps that do frequent read and writes. Games utilize RAID 0 quite well when it comes down to loading levels. For other apps, RAID 0 doesn't seem to show that much of improvement. You might be able to boot into your OS a little faster. My main use for RAID 0 was to have a larger, SINGLE, storage rather than 2. However, this is for my desktop. For laptops, I'm not quite sure what I would do.

 

ok cool thanks man

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

 

I do have a question regardind raid
I got two 200 GB dirves at the present time there not set om raid one drive I
I got it at fat 32 and the main drive NTFS
I do frequent back ups whit Acronis so this way I don't have to buy an external drive
Now my question is would be better to have it raid0 ot 1 for a total of 400 GB
and then resize the patition one for 250 GB and the other partition 150 GB ?
thanks

 

IMHO, this is how I would do it and how I did it on my desktop. On my desktop, I made around 40 GB partition (might be larger) and only installed the OS and any other M$ product on this drive. Then I took my storage drive and made an Acronis partition and only backed up my OS. All other programs that are installed are installed in a different partition to help limit the size of the Acronis back up partition. Does that make sense?

As far as your laptop goes, I'd make 3-4 partitions. 1st partition for the OS and any other programs you want to install. 2nd partition for all your data. And then, make a 3rd (hidden) partition with Acronis and back up your OS partition on there.

 

what brand of HD does the 7811 come with?

 

seagate I believe