Multiple RAID arrays?

[Cyno01]

I'm building a new computer soon and am researching RAID, basically, i'd like a very fast and redundant system drive for gaming and general use and i'd also like a very large drive for non-critical data. I have my heart set on the DFI <a href="http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_details_r_us.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=2141&CATEGORY_TYPE=MB&SITE=NA">NFII Ultra Infinity motherboard</a>, which has 4 SATA ports, controlled by a <a href="http://www.siliconimage.com/products/sii3114.asp">Silicon Image Sil3114</a>, which supports RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 1+0. My question is pretty much, can it support 2 of these at once? Idealy i'd like to have 2 74GB Raptors in RAID 1+0 for my system disk, as well as 2 250GB drives in RAID 0 for storage. Is this possible with only my motherboard, or do i need an aditional RAID controler. I've got a feeling it is if i use software from SI instead of DFI, but i really dont know. Will this work, or if not, what would anyone recomend?

 

[TheRod]

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For the SATA stuff, I assume that is possible to have 2 array, since yhere is 4 ports available. But I'm not a SATA/RAID professionnal.

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[upec]

Why do you need 1+0 for system partition?? Redundancy will be more important for array you use to store data.

 

[upec]

You will need at least 4 hard drive array in order to use Raid 1+0.