SATA RAID 0 and 1 Setup on the same PC, separately

[suryax]

Hi Guys, this is my first post on this forum, so please excuse if there are mistakes

I'm looking to build a new AMD Dual Core AM2 PC with Windows XP Professional (SP2). I went through several forums but couldn't find the information I needed, so decided to post my own question

RAID 0 provides you the speed (no redundancy) and RAID 1 provides you redundancy (but slow). RAID 0+1 gives you both, but all 4 Hard Drives (I would think) have to be the same size

So I thought I'd ask if It's possible to have SATA RAID 0 and 1 setup separately on the same PC. I would think the Motherboard would have to have 2 SATA RAID controllers (One on-board and one PCI Express, or both on-board)

The first controller would have 2 SATA Hard Drives (smaller capacity) linked to it and have RAID 0 on it. This setup will be used to install the Operating System and Applications (make things faster)

The second controller would have 2 SATA Hard Drives (bigger capacity) linked to it and have RAID 1 on it. This setup will be used to hold music, photos etc (Redundancy)

Appreciate everybody's comments ideas in advance

 

[Mondoman]

Yes, no problem. Whether you need a 2nd controller depends on the SATA controller. Plenty of SATA controllers can handle 4 drives and manage more than one RAID volume.

 

[suryax]

This is the Motherboard I'm thinking of getting - You think the RAID controller on this supports multiple RAID Volumes?

MSI K9A Platinum

Processor Support All Socket AM2 processors
Northbridge ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200
Southbridge ATi SB600
Memory Support 4 DIMMs, DDR2, 533/667/800, 8GiB max
Graphics 2 x PCI Express Graphics 16X, Supports ATI CrossFire
PCI Express 2 x PCI Express 1x (SB600)
PCI Conventional 2 slots, PCI2.2
ATA 1 x ATA/133 (SB600)
SATA 4 ports SATA2/300 AHCI (SB600)
RAID 0/1/0+1 (SB600)
LAN 1 x 10/100/1000 (Realtek 8111B, PCIe on SB600)
1 x 10/100/1000 (Realtek 8110S, PCI on SB600)
Audio Realtek AudioMAX HD 7.1
HD Audio, 8-channel, (Realtek ALC883)
Floppy 1 port, SB600
FireWire 2 ports, FireWire 400 (VIA VT6308P)
USB 10 ports, USB2 (SB600)

 

[sruane]

Intel Matrix Storage Manager will let you run raid 0 and raid 1 at the same time on the same set of disks.

 

[Hawkeye22]

Looks like you should be able to unless you're running RAID1+0.

See specs here