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I have Raptor RAID AND the barracuda perpend. 320Gb on ICH8R .
AND WD1200JB and DVD on the JMicron , as Raid or IDE ..same.
I suggest you TEST differente stripe size , I did 128k and it seems to suck on performance. 32k stripe supposed to be good for x2 Raid0, 16k for 4x Raid0.
Set to Raid in BIOS regardless of drivers. Install Intel Matrix Storage Manager.
Enable WriteCache for the Raid in the Manager
You may want to experiment/consider doing a RAID0 AND RAID1 on the same HDD Array. Thats the specialty of the Intel Matrix :)