How to software RAID 0 on 2 partition of the same drive (for dual actuator drive speedup) under Windows
How to software RAID 0 on 2 partition of the same drive (for dual actuator drive speedup) under Windows
Hello!
I just got a Seagate Exos Mach2 dual actuator sata drive and am trying to create a RAID 0 out of the two halved partitions in order to mimic what the SAS version does with the two LUNs and basically double the potential speed by using both actuators simultaneously.
I cannot however seem to figure out how to create this striped volume, as the disk management options are all greyed out. I've tried switching the disk to dynamic as well, and it's the same thing.
I'm not too sure how to achieve this, since RAID usually requires disks and not partitions, but it's definitely achievable under Linux: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/how-to-zfs-on-dual-actuator-mach2-drives-from-seagate-without-worry/197067
Anyone know? The limitation being of course, Windows.
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Isn't that what it does by default...?
Should be really easy to confirm just by doing a simple benchmark read on the device, probably a few GBs would do (more to make sure there aren't any RAM caching shenanigans).