Setup RAID 0, for recording.

chillisteak

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So I kind make a few videos these days of my gameplay etc, 1TB of storage gets eaten up no trouble at all when recording at 60fps.

So I thought I'd add a second, and place it in to RAID 0 to get a bit of extra performance out of it.

Now I only want to place these 2 hard drives into RAID, my OS and software are on completely different HDD's and I'd like to keep them separate for the obvious reasons of not losing everything should anything go wrong with the RAID array.

Is that possible at all?
Because I've not seen one guide showing how to set up an independent array, just fresh installs of everything.
 
Hello... Boot to your BIO's, and look in your MB manual, and see if you have a separate "controller" and RAID options for physical SATA ports 3 an 4, on your MB... Typically there are... and could be "Created" when connecting the drives to that 2nd controller ports on the MB.
 

chillisteak

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Admittedly haven't tried this but judging from this one line in my MOBO manual, I'm assuming it's not possible.

"due to chipset limitation, when set any of SATA ports to RAID mode, all SATA ports run at RAID mode together."

Am I reading that right? if I click the RAID option everyone of my drives will be forced into RAID?

Because a page or two later it actually mentions selecting drives to be in the RAID array.
Ah I hate user manuals always seem like they are talking giberish.

MOBO is Sabetooth 990FX if that helps anyone.