Quote Originally Posted by Cob View Post
i) The motherboards RAID is fine. And it's simple to do, tho you will have to install Windows using the RAID drivers. Or you can use the 2 orange SATA ports and they will automatically RAID0 the two drives for you.

ii) Yes you can make partitions on RAID.

You will get twice the size of the smallest drive, so yeah two 320gb drives will get you about 600gb of usable space.
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!