Single Disk Raid? To Span or Stripe?

I've got a 300gb SATA Maxtor drive and it's going to be the only HDD in my system at the moment.

I'm running it on a DFI SLi-D mobo, I've got to set it up as raid so I can get windows XP install to recognise it's full size... but which raid would be better for me? Stripe or Spanning? Bearing in mind that I may want to add a 2nd drive down the line - though I very much doubt I will want to mirror.

Cheers (and sorry if this is one of those weekly questions!)

What? you wanna setup a RAID with ONE hard drive?...

I don't think you need a raid for windows to see your 300GB HD....you do know about this http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013 right?..

Slack said:

I've got a 300gb SATA Maxtor drive and it's going to be the only HDD in my system at the moment.

I'm running it on a DFI SLi-D mobo, I've got to set it up as raid so I can get windows XP install to recognise it's full size... but which raid would be better for me? Stripe or Spanning? Bearing in mind that I may want to add a 2nd drive down the line - though I very much doubt I will want to mirror.

Cheers (and sorry if this is one of those weekly questions!)

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Let's get something straight first. You are using the RAID Controller for the Serial ATA drive but you are not running in RAID. With that you will no longer have to think about Striping or Spanning or even Mirroring

What you would want to find out is why you have to use a third party controller to recognize the full size of the drive. Could it be that you are running a Pre-SP1/2 Install CD? My guess would be yes & you can learn about SlipStreaming Service Packs HERE.

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