possible to raid 0 4 intel 520s, best way about it

[McMada]

already have 2 intel 520s in raid 0 and seen a good sale for 2 more and i couldn't resist. whats the best way to transfer everything to my wd green drive then back to raid 0 4 ssds?

[jollywombat]

McMada wrote:
already have 2 intel 520s in raid 0 and seen a good sale for 2 more and i couldn't resist. whats the best way to transfer everything to my wd green drive then back to raid 0 4 ssds?

To the best of my knowledge, you won't be able to do that with respect to converting up to the 4x without reinstalling.

[McMada]

jollywombat wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, you won't be able to do that with respect to converting up to the 4x without reinstalling.

so its possible then, maybe some googling will find me a solution

[DooRules]

Easy peasy bud, you can just add drives to the array very easily. Basically just plug them in, go to irst control panel and add disks to the array, all done.
That's the easy part, thing is you will now have drives spanning the 3 gb and 6 gb Intel ports, this nerfs the 6 gb ports performance severely. Will all work just fine, did for me, but imho you would be better served using two for os and two for storage.

[jollywombat]

You can do that with a raid-5/10, but never heard of that with a raid-0 since its splitting that data across all drives, you have to break the array in the intel ROM and recreate it, which means loss of all data due to how the raid-0 works. Unless the intel RST then does some sort of software raid then which I would avoid.

[DooRules]

As you plug drives in the IRST control panel will give the option to add them to the array. I have done this before, no issues, the IRST does what it needs to in the background.

[jollywombat]

DooRules wrote:
As you plug drives in the IRST control panel will give the option to add them to the array. I have done this before, no issues, the IRST does what it needs to in the background.

I stand corrected, was not aware it could do that now. Nice to know it can, thanks

[BOLTS4BREKFAST]

I would create a system image using the windows 7 backup feature
... save the image into your green drive... power down and connect your other 2 ssd's. Recreate your raid0 array including the 2 new ssd's and boot up with a windows 7 recovery disk ( you are prompted to create this disk when you create your windows 7 image).. once booted from the disk you will have the option to restore your computer from an image.. select that option and look for the image on the green drive.. depending on what SATA port the green drive is plugged into, you might need to load the drivers for that SATA controller first so of will be able to recognize the drive...

Once the image is restored onto the new array.. boot into windows and go to disk management and resize your OS partition to fit the new array size.. TADA!

[nikolator]

BOLTS4BREKFAST wrote:
I would create a system image using the windows 7 backup feature
... save the image into your green drive... power down and connect your other 2 ssd's. Recreate your raid0 array including the 2 new ssd's and boot up with a windows 7 recovery disk ( you are prompted to create this disk when you create your windows 7 image).. once booted from the disk you will have the option to restore your computer from an image.. select that option and look for the image on the green drive.. depending on what SATA port the green drive is plugged into, you might need to load the drivers for that SATA controller first so of will be able to recognize the drive...

Once the image is restored onto the new array.. boot into windows and go to disk management and resize your OS partition to fit the new array size.. TADA!

It does not work for uefi raid 0 set up (raid volume as gpt), only for legacy (raid volume as mbr).
Even Acronis 2012 can not make a recovery for uefi raid 0 (may be acronis 2013 or Macrium).

[Nodens]

You can just do what DooRules said. Just add the drives to the array. Backing up critical data prior to any operation on fakeraid is a good idea though.