Raid 10, 5 with different drive sizes on windows 7
Hi, I had some questions on raid 10 and raid 5 and also 0.
Here is the scenario: a primary drive (C:) SSD 160 GB. I wish to later add on additional drives like the Seagate hybrid 500GB. It'll be a desktop with Windows 7 Pro 7.
1) If I was thinking of creating a RAID 0 or RAID 5 or RAID 10 then is this possible? They are different drive sizes. Also, I'm adding the drives after the fact that OS is installed.
i) What things should I be considering?
ii) How is this set up (if possible)?
iii) What difficulties would I encounter?
2) This is not really related to a RAID question in particular but I'm wondering if it's possible to add in a 500GB hard drive later and install larger programs such as the Adobe Master collection to the secondary drive.
Thanks,
Victor
Here is the scenario: a primary drive (C:) SSD 160 GB. I wish to later add on additional drives like the Seagate hybrid 500GB. It'll be a desktop with Windows 7 Pro 7.
1) If I was thinking of creating a RAID 0 or RAID 5 or RAID 10 then is this possible? They are different drive sizes. Also, I'm adding the drives after the fact that OS is installed.
i) What things should I be considering?
ii) How is this set up (if possible)?
iii) What difficulties would I encounter?
2) This is not really related to a RAID question in particular but I'm wondering if it's possible to add in a 500GB hard drive later and install larger programs such as the Adobe Master collection to the secondary drive.
Thanks,
Victor
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1) So if I, say hypothetically, add in an extra 4 x 500 GB hybrids can I create these as RAID 10 after I have my 160 GB SD drive with my OS on the 160 GB (primary drive)?
The reason I ask is because with the Adobe Master collection it comes with Adobe Premiere and if I had to do some rendering of some large-sized videos then I believe they suggest RAID 0 but I know the RAID 10 is basically a RAID 0 and RAID 1 (for redundancy). It's just something I would like the option of adding a RAID 10 after the fact I get a 160 SD drive with Windows 7 Pro installed on it.
I'm thinking the Raid set up from within Windows 7. Does Windows 7 Pro have it's own RAID software controller? Is it good?
Thanks,
Victor