Going to raid tomorrow for the first time, quick question.

[ziggo0]

Alright, my second 250gb Seagate 7200.11 perp will be arriving tomorrow...so I'll be raiding them together. Normally I partition 40gb for Windows then the rest for my games. What I understand from the guide you make 2 raid0 volumes which take the place of your partitions in a sense, is that correct? So 2 raid0 volumes..one 40gb, the rest to whatever, when I get in Windows I just create my Games partition? Just easy like that? Oh my....what should I be expecting in terms of performance??

[Vipersfate]

If you're going to do RAID0 on both partitions, why not just make the entire array a RAID0 volume? If you have the Matrix RAID available, take a look at the RAID sticky at the top.

[fritzman]

With that board, you've got the ability to set up two raid arrays without any bothers as has been mentioned, and you'll have a degree more safety...

Have a look at the stickies... check out the Matrix thread and also the one about setting a matrix array up (with pictures).

Can I suggest that you set up a 40Gb Raid0 slice and then either leave the balance as a large raid0 chunk (if you can afford to lose what's on it) or a Raid1 (mirrorred) set.

If you go the raid1 option (for the balance after taking 20Gb off each drive foir the raid0) you'll have a really quick O/S drive, and a somewhat slower storage drive, but that probably won't be detected by you.

Have a read... have a play. Can't go too far wrong.

[ziggo0]

http://www.distantnexus.net/misc/raid0.jpg

How did I do?