Help with RAID 0
 

ok guys i have a 160gb HD that i currently use on my computer and i want to make a Raid 0 (mirror array). i bought another drive the same size and i need help with the setup cause i dont want to lose anything cause i'm a noob at RAID and i have no clue what to do. i have a P4C800 E-Deluxe mobo that has that RAID controler on it.

[QUOTE=georgekh]ok guys i have a 160gb HD that i currently use on my computer and i want to make a Raid 0 (mirror array). [/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks[/url]
[QUOTE]A RAID 0 (also known as a striped set) splits data evenly across two or more disks with [B]no parity information for redundancy[/B].[/QUOTE]
So, RAID 0 is probably not what you want. You may want RAID 1:
[QUOTE]A RAID 1 creates [B]an exact copy (or mirror)[/B] of all of data on two or more disks.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=georgekh]i bought another drive the same size and i need help with the setup cause i dont want to lose anything cause i'm a noob at RAID and i have no clue what to do. i have a P4C800 E-Deluxe mobo that has that RAID controler on it.[/QUOTE]

ASUS wrote a very good manual with step-by-step instructions on creating mirror RAID 1 set with saving existing hard drive contents. Look at "5.4 Promise RAID configurations" in [url]http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock478/P4C800E-DX/e1347b_p4c800-e_deluxe.pdf[/url]

yea i meant to say RAID 1 sorry but thanks for clarifying it.