raid and new mobos i need some help

Hi there,

seems like things have changed a bit from my raid array on my socket A system!

I'm going to purchase a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 motherboard. Plan is to have 2 160gb drive and a 400.

Now i have two controllers i can choose from, the on board southbridge and the IDE/SATA controller supports raid too. My plan would be to use the southbridge for the raid - i think this is the most logical one to use - however can you have on this two hard drives in raid and additional hard drives being used as stand alone?

Also are there any "good practices" now of using these two controllers perhaps i should use the southbridge as the raid, and the seperate controller for the 400gb drive? THis would eliminate my last question however i'd still like to know for if i buy more hard drives

This might be better going in the motherboard section but i thought i'd try here,

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks, Martin

thanks for the reply Jo, sounds similar to my current mobo tho it is IDE. I'll have to give it a try and see what happens, motherboard manuals are so pathetic sometimes.
Martin