Several hard drives were recently donated to me by a very kind gentleman and this has allowed me to start testing and playing with a lot of technology that I couldn't do before without risking my production machine and my data. I have been wanting to blog about my technology experiences for a while and I think this will get me going.
First of all, I threw two new hard drives into my computer and installed Windows 8. Next I went into disk manager and added the second one as a mirror. I browsed the web and did some hard drive benchmarks. So far, Windows 8 is running very fast. My goal is to just use it and not worry about breaking it. I am not planning to install very many applications and I plan to keep 100% of my data in the cloud while testing. Just for fun, I turned the hard drive mirroring off and then on again. I want to set up a RAID0 but "New Striped Volume" is greyed out in disk manager right now.
Anyway, here are my hard drive benchmarks. I am noticing that the read speeds for small files are significantly faster when in RAID1 than for the single drive.
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