Setting up SSD for OS and SRT HD for storage

I just wanted to let everyone know that it IS possible to set up SRT on a non-OS drive. It took me about 2 hours of fiddling but I finally got it to work. My solution also doesn't seem to have any rhyme or reason.

Here's the steps I took in my order, thought I don't expect that you have to follow what I did:

Connected SSD to computer on Marvell SATA 3 controller and booted up.
Went into BIOS and made sure my SATA controller was set to Raid instead of IDE. (mistakenly this was only for the Intel controller not Marvell).
Installed Windows 7 on SSD
Installed drivers (SRT, video card, etc.)
Restarted and connected 1TB magnetic drive to computer

At this point I could not get SRT to activate for the drive. I saw that it needed to be on Intel SATA controller not the Marvell ones. So I:

Shut down and swapped both hard drives from the Marvell SATA controller to the Intel SATA 3 controller.
Set Marvell controllers to Raid (not sure that this would do anything)
Put my DVD drive from Intel SATA 3 controller to Marvell SATA 3 controller

System would not load or boot. However, I got a weird boot message about setting up raid for my two disks. So I:

Set the Marvell controllers back to IDE for my DVD drive, still no boot. So I:

Swapped the DVD drive to one of the Intel SATA 2 controllers and rebooted.

The system booted up right into windows, and when I clicked on SRT I had the option to accelerate my "E:" drive (which is the 1TB magnetic storage).

I'm guessing that all the last steps were unnecessary, and that if you just hook up the drives to the Intel controller and set them to raid from the start everything will be OK. It's just odd that changing only my DVD drive (which happened to be holding the Windows DVD) suddenly made the system bootable, when it really shouldn't have mattered. Also, this was about a jillion times harder than it needed to be.