First raid setup advice
- Thread starter JeffyB
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there is a seperate floppy driver on the intel website that creates the required driver disk, if you are still looking.
I always used to have a seperate partiion for the OS, just to keep things seperate, but there is no difference in speed, and as long as you back up your important data I can see no benefit of a seperate OS partition.
Raid 5 is significantly slower than the raid 0 partition that you are considering on anything but the fastest of hardware raid cards and give you little practical benefit unless you have a larger quantity of drives, if you require redundancy go for raid 10.
You intel controller will handle three drives in raid 0 no problems, it will do upto six from memory, or four in raid 5.
I always used to have a seperate partiion for the OS, just to keep things seperate, but there is no difference in speed, and as long as you back up your important data I can see no benefit of a seperate OS partition.
Raid 5 is significantly slower than the raid 0 partition that you are considering on anything but the fastest of hardware raid cards and give you little practical benefit unless you have a larger quantity of drives, if you require redundancy go for raid 10.
You intel controller will handle three drives in raid 0 no problems, it will do upto six from memory, or four in raid 5.
Was easy in the end, really pleased so far will post benchmarks in the other thread, thanks to all that helped 
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