Raid controller on Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3

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Hi I have a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3 rev 4
There is 6 Sata on this so I want one port for SDD operating system and progs and one for Data and General 'stuff' I am fanatical about back ups so I am happy to have two raid 0's on the remaining 4 ports.
Bit confused as to how best to do this.
On this board is there a built in raid controller? ... is that an alternative option to setting it up in the bios. That is one thing that I don't really understand
Also if I do want to set up my raid in the bios do I have to have my four drives present when I do this? If the raid has to be set up before Windows instal then it is a bit of a pain for me. I don't have all the caviar black's at present. I was hoping to be able to set the raid functionality and then windows and all my 'stuff' and then later on actually fit the drives.
I have front hot swap bays and the way I work is to sometimes swap drives. With that in mind my ideal solution is to be able to swap paired raid drives with another paired raid drives later on without having to go back to bios and re install windows and all its updates and all adobe suite etc etc.
Hope that makes sense and scuse the long post but those are my current concerns.
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I thought as much..... That it was the bios. Just read that some other boards had chips. Thanks for the link there. I have done the windows raid before and it was ok just looking for other/better options Looks like it is the bios option for me. The manual says nothing about the ability to add the drives later down the road rather than at the time of set up windows install. Neither can I find any examples of that situation on the web. If anyone has done that with success or any good tuts that show setting the bios pre windows instal and adding the drives later on. That would help.

Maybe also read the question btw i 7. "Also if I do want to set up my raid in the bios"

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Thanks. I thought that might have been the case. I was just hoping. It is video editing so scratch disks and media cache on one and media and assets on another. I only have three of the drives atm. Likely I will just go with one raid 0 and keep the cache on the spare single black and non raided. Should be fine.
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Just one more thing briefly... If I do that... If I set up one raid 0 in bios for a couple of drives that are present and in the bays then I go ahead with windows instal and finish off doing that in windows and then run the operating system for a while, can I change those drives later?
I have hot swap bays in my case front. If I have the raid set to those ports can I swap over the existing pair for a different (but matched) pair. IE could I swap out the two blacks and put in two Barracuda's for instance or would I have to go through the whole process again.
Many thanks
 
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You absolutely cannot swap drives in a RAID 0. There is zero redundancy, and if you lose one drive, you lose all of your data. The best configuration for being able to hot swap single drives is a RAID 5. With a RAID 10 configuration, you'd need to swap in pairs, or whatever size your RAID 0 arrays are.
 
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