How to get RAID0 only for a limited space

[Criss-AC]

Hi, I have 2 HDDs, one of 500 GB and one of 1 TB. I was wondering if I could get the to RAID 0 only a part of the available gigs, something like 50 GB from each HDD, 50 GB which I would use for C partition, while keeping the rest untouched, and use it normally for other data? I wouldn't want to raid everything as my two HDDs are not the same size.

 

[ubernoobie]

you can only raid the exact model of your hd. If you got like a f3 1tb and u wanna raid with f3 500gb, u can't do that

 

[RetiredChief]

You are not going to do what you want to.
You can use 2 different sized drives, BUT it will default to 2 times the smallest one. In your case you would have available 500 gigs + 500 Gigs = ! TB. You would lose 500 Gigs on the 1 TB drive (CAN NOT USE). Now you can create a raid0 strip of say 50 gigs (Would show up as drive 0) and create a 2nd stripe using the remainder of space ( 1 TB - 50 Gigs) - this would then show up as drive 1. I have ICH8R and you are limited to 2 striped arrays per pair of disks. Do not know if this is true for ICH9R and 10R.

 

[Criss-AC]

So there is no way that I could have only a little of each HDD in RAID 0 while keeping the rest untouched? Not even as a... software RAID? About this I am not sure...

Anyway, your answer was just as what I was afraid of hearing..

 

[shabaa]

There is no speed benifit from using a software raid setup.