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I've made a Raid 10 for my PC...or have I? Help!
So previously I had a single 512GB SSD for my OS and a single 2TB mechanical HDD for my work, general storage, and anything like game installs. All my important programs are also on the SSD.
I'm a Designer who does a lot of 3D work (modeling and rendering), and the 2TB drive has filled up pretty quickly as my freelance projects and personal projects grow. Since some of this work has quite a lot of monetary value, and the size of the files are getting quite big, I thought a raid would complement my setup. Yes, a raid isn't redundancy before you all say it! I have a 6TB external drive as well for backup. But the increase in redundancy and the increase in speed from RAID10 would really help my workflow, which can involve massive 3D renders and 4k footage. I bought 4 2TB Seagate drives. I'm also using software raid, I understand that's a discussion on it's own.
I followed this guide here: https://www.pcgamer.com/how-set-raid-10-windows-8-and-l...
First of all I had a problem with some of my brand new drives showing up as removable media, but after googling this turned out to be a feature and not an error. Some regedit fixed that. Next I found that using just Disk Management tool wouldn't work alone, and would take 8+ hours to format everything. That's when I found the guide.
I followed it and now i've got something weird looking. Here: https://i.imgur.com/XVvpNJe.png
The first part of the guide uses Windows 10 pooling tool to create to two RAID1 setups. These you can see I named Stripe 1 and Stripe 2. Then the guide says to use Disk Mangment to create a Raid 0 from those. Which you can see i've also done.
However, the original Stripe1 and Stripe2 have not gone away, and even weird, as I move stuff onto the Raid mount, the space used does not change on either of them. Since I plan on moving my work from the old 2TB drive onto this RAID10, I want to be sure its setup right (as I will delete it off the old drive after).
So have I done this right? Is my RAID10 actually setup? Is there anyway to check it's actually done it? Why are those stripes still there? Why is the size not changing? Does that matter? Anyway to get rid of them?
Thanks in advance, this is all really delicate because losing work could cost me weeks of time and stuff I can't recreate pixel perfect, not to mention the clients I might lose if this Removed up.
Someone on Reddit has since suggested I click "Delete Volume" on each stripe - and this had indeed unmounted them. However this wasn't an option when I was making it (both were "Unallocated"), and this still hasn't given me any confidence that my Raid is in effects.
Disk Management loos like this: https://i.imgur.com/9QQQtBV.png
Why are there two raids!? Why are there 4 drives listed separately? Have I actually just got a Raid0 by accident?