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Hello-- Put together a new computer--something I don't do often, so not so good at it. I've got a 300 Gb Velociraptor that I want to be my system drive, and two 1tb drives that I'd like to set up as a RAID 0 array for data. Is this possible? I can't really tell from the mobo documentation if I can set up the RAID on only two drives, and I don't know how to set up Win 7 so it will use my drives this way. Can I do this?
Name: johnr Date: October 24, 2009 at 10:21:41 Pacific
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I don't see any advantage to having your data set up as RAID 0 as you wouldn't get any speed increase because your OS (which would still be doing most of the work) is not included.
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Response Number 2
Name: Sabertooth Date: October 24, 2009 at 14:27:41 Pacific
Name: harryrutland Date: October 24, 2009 at 23:25:05 Pacific
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Alrighty then...so no RAID.
Then I guess my alternative would be to go with the 300 Gb for the OS and have two independent 1 Tb data drives (I have a lot of video, hence the need for all the space).
So, the second half of my query: can Windows 7 be set up to look at something other than C: for documents and music and all the other stuff? I don't mean just going through the "Computer" tab and moving stuff, rather Windows defaults to the other drives for things other than program files and OS files.
Thanks, Eric
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Response Number 4
Name: tvc Date: October 25, 2009 at 11:26:34 Pacific
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You can always try this one (comes from WindowsXP):
1. Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion 2. Find ProgramFilesDir whose default should be C:\Program Files 3. Change this to whatever directory you wish. I changed it to D:\Program Files for example.
Remember you have to reboot for your changes to show.
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Response Number 5
Name: Sabertooth Date: October 25, 2009 at 15:08:30 Pacific
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