Quote Originally Posted by Trice View Post
I was used to my nice lil 650i with slipstreamed nForce RAID drivers.


How do I setup a RAID 0 on this board? Do I need drivers for it like my nForce one?

Also whats a good stripe for 2x74 GB Raptors?


Do I use SATA connector 1 and 2 or so I need to use like 1 and 6?
WEll that was a helpful post -lol!
Go into bios and set sata to raid. then reboot and matrix storage manager will come up. Hit control+I and setup your raid 0 volumes. Make sure you have a floppy or usb with the ICH9R raid driver on it - use make floppy from the board install disk. Resinstall Vista or XP - vista - select load driver when you reach install screen - XP hit f6. Once loaded your all set - remember to install the Intel matrix storage manager - latest downloads here http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Prod...ProductID=2101 .
Run HD tune or tach and see your performance increase - makes you very happy-lol!. Its worth getting Acronis TRue Image 11 home ttp://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...cts/trueimage/
to create and manage a backup/restore copy of the operating system cos raid 0 can be prone to failure moreso than a single drive. With Acronis you can create a bootable USB backup and a lot of other things too. I found that the install seemed a lot slower than when I did an install with it set to IDE but it gets there. So dont panic if you think it is going slower . I did but learn from my mistakes -lol!

This is a good read and interesting ' Enter the MAtrix' - http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=467848 I have set my HDD's ine up with RAID 0/1 on 2 disks but they are 320GB. You will only want raid HAve Fun . Heres a though provoking thread re RAID 0 - any real benefits.
http://forums.storagereview.net/inde...er&f=2&t=25286
Still one way or another its fun to see the HD tune graphs.i