Getting RAID to work on the ASUS Maximus SE

[Talonman]

I ran HD Tune on the rest of my system too, just to see how the non-RAID drives do in comparison.

(C-Drive) (2) WD 150GB 10K RPM Raptor's in RAID 0. 279GB's free after formatting.
Minimum Transfer Rate: 87.8 MB/sec
Maximum Transfer Rate: 158.8 MB/sec
Average Transfer Rate: 132.5 MB/sec
Access Time: 8.0 ms
Burst Rate: 1861.0 MB/sec
CPU Usage 2.1%

(D-Drive) Samsung 232GB's free after formatting non-RAID.
Minimum Transfer Rate: 37.9 MB/sec
Maximum Transfer Rate: 70.0 MB/sec
Average Transfer Rate: 58.7 MB/sec
Access Time: 13.8 ms
Burst Rate: 118.3 MB/sec
CPU Usage .7%

(E-Drive) Caviar 698GB's free after formatting non-RAID.
Minimum Transfer Rate: 44.9 MB/sec
Maximum Transfer Rate: 93.6 MB/sec
Average Transfer Rate: 74.5 MB/sec
Access Time: 13.8 ms
Burst Rate: 128.1 MB/sec
CPU Usage .7%

Looks like RAID smokes them pretty bad...

Thanks for the info WFO. I will try Auslogics Defrag if it offers a performance increase.

Update: Downloaded Auslogics Defrag, and ran fine under Vista 64bit. It is free too! Looks like a keeper to me.

Now I need a backup program, that will allow me to back up my RAID array onto my Samsung 232GB drive, and that runs on Vista 64bit.
Any suggestions would be appreachiated!