I've been planning to buy two hard drives for a few months and set up a raid0. Now my hard drives are here and I see this matrix raid stuff that I've never even heard of. I've read for the past 2 hours about how to set it up, the speeds and recommendations. Well, I'm really confused about a few things and I wondered if anyone could clear it up.
First, can I run the matrix raid with my gigabyte motherboard? I saw it requires an intel southbridge and I don't know if my southbridge is compatible. I have a GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 mobo.
2) My hard drives are western digital WD6401AALS 640GB 7200s. Running a raid0, can I use all 640gb of both hdds? If I run matrix, do I need to have the redundant drive?
3) What is generally the best setup for an all out matrix raid 0 (if such a setup exists)? Do I create just one raid as raid0? I've also read about creating slices in order to stripe each differently (64kb or 128kb) to read certain types of files faster. I was thinking about having a slice to contain OS partitions, then another slice for partitions containing programs and data files. Does this make sense?
4) Where and when do I create "slices"? Where and when do I create partitions on a fresh install. I presently use partition magic 8 and created my second partition on my present hdd to run windows 7. Should I, or would I need Partition magic to manage partitions on my raid drive?
Can someone who has done this guide me through these details. Again, I've read the matrix raid threads but theres still a bunch of things that don't make sense yet...
All I want to know how to do is create a matrix raid0 with 2 separate "slices", one for OS partitions and one for programs/data partitions. I want to create 2 OS partitions on slice 1 and 3 partitions on slice 2 - 2 for program files, 1 for data etc. Does this like a good idea and is it plausible?
Help appreciated!!!
First, can I run the matrix raid with my gigabyte motherboard? I saw it requires an intel southbridge and I don't know if my southbridge is compatible. I have a GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 mobo.
2) My hard drives are western digital WD6401AALS 640GB 7200s. Running a raid0, can I use all 640gb of both hdds? If I run matrix, do I need to have the redundant drive?
3) What is generally the best setup for an all out matrix raid 0 (if such a setup exists)? Do I create just one raid as raid0? I've also read about creating slices in order to stripe each differently (64kb or 128kb) to read certain types of files faster. I was thinking about having a slice to contain OS partitions, then another slice for partitions containing programs and data files. Does this make sense?
4) Where and when do I create "slices"? Where and when do I create partitions on a fresh install. I presently use partition magic 8 and created my second partition on my present hdd to run windows 7. Should I, or would I need Partition magic to manage partitions on my raid drive?
Can someone who has done this guide me through these details. Again, I've read the matrix raid threads but theres still a bunch of things that don't make sense yet...
All I want to know how to do is create a matrix raid0 with 2 separate "slices", one for OS partitions and one for programs/data partitions. I want to create 2 OS partitions on slice 1 and 3 partitions on slice 2 - 2 for program files, 1 for data etc. Does this like a good idea and is it plausible?
Help appreciated!!!