RAID Question

[pdubbs03]

I was wondering is it possible to have a single SATAII HDD as my primary (OS) and 2 extra SATAII HDD's in RAID 0 (DATA) using the software RAID on my Foxconn 790FX motherboard? I want to boot of the single drive and have the other 2 as one fast data drive. Thanks in advance.

 

[sudec]

if the two drives you want to add to raid are same, than you should have no problems.

 

[pinaplex]

yes, i have a similar setup running.

 

[t85us]

I made that in bios, but a little different : 2 drives as RAID 0 for OS (it went hell fast) and another for temporary files/docs.
so, the 2 drives as stripped, and the third as a JBOD.
it went perfectly

the mobo was an asus m2n-mx with nforce430 and gforce6100

 

[boulard83]

Your good to go. Youll see C: and D: as your "2" drives ! just install Windows on the C: if its you "alone" one and D: if its your stripped one.

 

[DiscoDuck]

Just dont forget to backup data from your array, if the mobo dies your array is gone and the data with it.

 

[blackened144]

I made that in bios, but a little different : 2 drives as RAID 0 for OS (it went hell fast) and another for temporary files/docs.
so, the 2 drives as stripped, and the third as a JBOD.
it went perfectly

the mobo was an asus m2n-mx with nforce430 and gforce6100

I had my old system set up this way but it didnt make my system any faster. In fact it made the system feel a lot slower by increasing the access times due to the overhead inherent in a raid array. If this was done with faster drives like the raptor or SCSI drive, you can over come that issue, but I found that the system seemed very laggy. I now have my system set up like the OP is asking about with my OS on a single 400gb drive and 2 RAID0 arrays, 2x400gb and 2x500gb. Raid has some very specific instances where it can really take off, namely large sequential file transfers, but the OS does not take advantage of those instances in everyday use.

 

[boulard83]

+1 blackened144

Cheaper would be NO raid .. 3 HDD, 32mb cache, 7200 rpm.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136320

OS-Games-Everything

For 3x 74.99$ you can have something that runs sweet and nicely, and you have 2x chance not to lost data if one drive fail !

 

[cl_spdhax1]

why dont u just install windows and games only on the raid, while using the extra one for data storage. raid helps for loading apps, loading a game, etc. i got 4 drives on raid, and one of the guys is kinda right, it feels a bit slow to start, but once it starts moving, it flys.

 

[cl_spdhax1]

almost forgot, it should be the bios setting on which drive to boot up first, so you can control it.