Create a Striped Volume (RAID 0) With Multiple Disks in Windows

Windows will let you take multiple hard drives and combine them into a single striped volume (also known as RAID 0) so you can utilize all of the disks with a single drive. You will also get a performance gain with this configuration because it will write to all the drives at once using any free space on those drives.

Its similar to a spanned volume which wont give you the performance increase but will allow you to extend your volume if needed where the striped volume will not.

Neither a striped or spanned volume offers and data redundancy so if a disk fails then you are out of luck. On the other hand, you can also setup a RAID 1 mirrored volume with 2 disks to get some redundancy for your data.

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[woah]

if i were to add a different drive to extend this volume, is it possible?

[mediumsurmoon]

So like, I need to combine all three of my Hard Disk in order to set up the new Striped Volume (Raid 0) ? Like do I need a 3 physical hard disk ? Or one hard disk but splitted to three partitions and then combining them to Striped Volume ? That's where I'm confused at .

[rakeshp]

It Did work for me, I did RAID0 with 2 * 1TB drives now am unable to revert it back to 2*1tb. It's showing me as one drive only.

[kyqnpgw]

My main question is where the f** did you find 5GB drives in 2021...