Raid With Striping

[prescott911]

I dropped off my computer to be set up at Staples. I had purchased two brand new Seagate SATA drives and wanted to run RAID with with striping. I just picked up my computer this morning and for some reason when I start up my computer it says that it is running RAID with striping and has 1 GB of hard drive space which is normal.

However, when I go into My Computer, I see that there are two HDDs. Is this normal??

 

[Samstoned]

Staples aha that will teach you
sorry Staples are one of the worst out there for computer work
1gb of disk space ??? only normal if thats the size of your drive/drives
did you ask how raid was going to help you and your data
raid 1 with 2 drives you get safety in data copy/mirror
raid 0 not good for safety
READ THIS

 

[prescott911]

yea, my hard drives are identical 500 gb drives.

so they messed it up huh??

 

[CCT]

With Raid O and 2 x 500 Gb drives, you would show a 1Tb drive.

With Raid 1 and 2 x 500 Gb drives, you would show 2 x 500 Gb drives.

It sounds like someone screwed up.

The only way you would get what you show is for Raid 1 (or similar, NOT 0) with partitons set at 1 Gb on each drive.

 

[prescott911]

Its too late to set up RAID with striping at this point unless I want to erase everything on my drives right??

 

[Samstoned]

edit again
yes you will lose data

both raid 0 and 1 do and will show the same thing that should be 0+1
2 -500gb will show as 1 -500gb drive
the diff is in the writing reading of data
0 stripes data across the disc's if 1 disc is destroyed all data is lost
but if thats what you want reformat in your raid utility

no one caught that ha that raid0+1 yer right raid 0 is 2-500gb =1tb
my book must have a miss print
good luck