Quote Originally Posted by LUCI5R View Post
i) If I use the two Orange SATA ports, do I still have to install Windows using RAID drivers? I'm prepared to format the two drives & re-install Vista, that's not a problem - as long as I don't have to do something special, or something I haven't done before.

ii) So for example, I'll see a C: drive of about 600GB, on which I can do anything I want, like partitions, etc.

One last Query: I know that on RAID 0 if any disk fails, all is lost - whereas in RAID 1 if one disk fails, you can replace it & nothing is lost. But you do get twice the size using RAID 0 and half the size using RAID 1. Just exclusively performance wise - is there a difference between RAID 0 & RAID 1?

Thanks - I appreciate it!
If you use the two orange ports they will automatically set up a RAID0 (well you might have to do a bit of configuring), and therefore they will automatically wipe both drives. And yes you'll have to load the RAID drivers if you wish to install Windows to them.

Are you wanting to put Windows on the RAID? If so then use the red Intel SATA ports.

ii) You'll see an unformatted and unpartitioned 600gb space, just as you would with a brand new single 600gb drive.

RAID1 is slightly slower than non-RAID (it has to deal with writing twice the data to two hard drives). RAID0 is faster than non-RAID (it only needs to write half the data to each drive).