Asus P5Q Turbo - Combining RAID Array with Non-Raid Drives

Kivin · 12-07-09, 04:52 PM

On my new box, I'm considering placing two 1TB drives in RAID 0 configuration and using all my old drives (320 GB, 80 GB, etc...) in a non-raid configuration. Is this possible? Do I need two separate SATA controllers to perform this?

My BIOS is presently set to IDE mode.
Losing the information on the secondary drives is not an option.

HDCHOPPER · 12-08-09, 10:53 PM

Ya it's possible it's called "nonmember raid disk"

johan851 · 12-08-09, 11:21 PM

They should work fine. I've attached spare disks to my install while in RAID mode and they show up like you would expect. Worst case would be the partition table gets messed up, which you could recover from pretty easily.

Unless, of course, you're planning to switch to RAID mode and keep your OS on one of the single drives. A guy just tried to do that and had to reinstall Windows to get it to work.

12-07-09, 04:52 PM	Thread Starter #1
Kivin Member Join Date: Sep 2008	Asus P5Q Turbo - Combining RAID Array with Non-Raid Drives On my new box, I'm considering placing two 1TB drives in RAID 0 configuration and using all my old drives (320 GB, 80 GB, etc...) in a non-raid configuration. Is this possible? Do I need two separate SATA controllers to perform this? My BIOS is presently set to IDE mode. Losing the information on the secondary drives is not an option. __________________ CPU _________ Intel Pentium E5800 3.2 GHz Mainboard ___ Asus P5Q Turbo Video Card __ XFX Radeon HD 6870 1GB Memory ______ OCZ Reaper PC2-9200 2x1GB PSU _________ Silverstone Strider ST50F 500W
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12-08-09, 10:53 PM	#2
HDCHOPPER Join Date: Mar 2008	Ya it's possible it's called "nonmember raid disk" __________________ Working on my I7 Asus P6T SE build feel free to donate lol
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12-08-09, 11:21 PM	#3
johan851 Insatiably Malcontent Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Seattle, WA	They should work fine. I've attached spare disks to my install while in RAID mode and they show up like you would expect. Worst case would be the partition table gets messed up, which you could recover from pretty easily. Unless, of course, you're planning to switch to RAID mode and keep your OS on one of the single drives. A guy just tried to do that and had to reinstall Windows to get it to work. __________________ ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 \| 2500K @ 4.6GHz \| 2x4GB Samsung DDR3 \| GTX460 768mb 120GB Crucial M4 \| 2x 2TB Samsung F4 \| Seasonic S12 600w AV-710 --> y2 DAC --> Custom M^3 --> Custom LM3875 ChipAmp --> Modula MTs Dual Dell 2007WFP \| Watercooled
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