raid 0 problem

hi everybody i had windows xp sp2 on a 0 raid 2x 320gb seagate sata baracudas. i upgraded to vista home premium every things working fine right now. i ran windows update when i got done it told me i could download a optional update. it was for my raid controller. i was wanting to know if i install this driver upgrade when it reboots will my raid 0 be destoryed or will it boot. and also is it possable to add a hard drive to the raid with out losing the info that is already on the raid also can you mix one or two 150gb rapters with the seagate barracudas ive read somwhere you can then ive read somewhere you cant. thanks in advance for any help

 

Personally, I NEVER let Microsoft install ANY driver updates. I don't trust it, it's messed my machines up too many times. I say, you're best to go to the manufacturer.

If you do decide to do it, then I strongly recommend that you back everything up, safe and sound. Maybe image your system partition.

You can create a separate array with other drives, but you must have identical hard drives for use in any one array. I've had trouble making arrays with drives that I thought WERE identical (I had ordered two of the same part number). Turns out the model of one was SLIGHTLY newer than the other, and I couldn't make an array because of it.

 

thanks for the info did what you said the frist time i put os in went to nvidia got the vista raid drivers and down loaded them ran them when the computer rebooted would not load os so then i tried loading xp and then upgradeing to vista and when it asked for me to load drivers i did that when i first got the nvidia drivers i burned them on to a dvd after system reboot got bsod when it tryed to finish loading vista then i tryed loading xp putting nvidia raid drivers in with floppy disk then upgrading and it worked id like to upgrade to the new raid control driver but the first time did not work so i guess ill just leave it its working dont fix it if it isnt broke right

 

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Are you sure you understand RAID classification?

Raid 0 (zero) is not recommended for stand alone sytems. It can provide faster access, but you are better off gaining that speed in other ways.
It also has the great drawback that because all the operating system, programs and data are spread over more than one disk, failure of any disk fails the whole systems in a normally non recoverable way.

 

yes i under stand raid 0 striping and raid 1 mirroring if one of my hard drives go down ill just re load every thing from my external hard drive i only use this for playing games anyway thanks for asking