Setting up RAID 0 on secondary hard drive?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by roryt2000, Oct 17, 2009.

  1. roryt2000

    roryt2000 Private E-2

    So, I have a secondary 500 GB hard drive (Seagate ST3500630AS) that I'm using to capture video to in Premiere Pro. I've been having problems with the capture freezing a couple minutes in and one of the suggested solutions was to set up RAID 0 on this drive. I have absolutely no idea where to begin with this. I've looked up quite a few guides and they all deal with installing it on your main hard drive, which I don't want to do. How do I go about doing it on a secondary drive and leaving the other out of it? Do I really need to format both drives and reinstall Windows even though the hard drive with my OS on it isn't being changed? Do I also need a floppy drive for this, as most guides say I will? Unfortunately I don't have access to one and every USB floppy drive I see for sale is in the range of $30-40, which is ridiculous for a floppy drive that I'll be using one time. My motherboard is a Giga-Byte EP35-DS3P and my OS is Windows XP SP3. Any info would be appreciated.
     
    roryt2000, Oct 17, 2009
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  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi


    Sadly you cannot just install Raid on one drive only Raid at a minimum needs to be a combination of two drives, which in Raid0 array work as one large HDD, the speed aspect comes as the data is split on the two drives thus making the reading of data quicker.

    The basics are that you enable Raid in your BIOS and then enter the Raid bios section on reboot, then add member disks to the array then you have to re-install Windows again plus all your software, which is not what I guess you are wanting to do. The motherboard manual has the steps to setup raid in Chapter 5

    On another possible thought and not going with Raid, maybe working out why the video is freezing may help, a thought is that a background task is causing the freezing and main suspect is likely your antivirus, so disable your antivirus and test a video out.

    Also how much RAM do you have installed?
     
    DavidGP, Oct 17, 2009
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