How to do raid 0+1? Questions about it too.

[clocka]

I've got an Abit IP35-Pro board and 2 * WD 320GB RE3 drives currently in raid0, i'm wanting to have a 35GB partition in raid0 for my XP O.S and appz etc and 40GB partition for Vista SP1 O.S and the rest of the 550GB or so as a raid1 drive with my important data held on it. Do i do this in intel matrix storage manager? Also if 1 of the drives dies what happens, will 1 of the drives work fine on the board, will it work on any ICH9R board, will the board have to be in RAID mode or will AHCI or ATA work to read the raid1 partition? Will i be able to plug it into a ICH10R board and be able to read the raid1 partition?

I'll be upgrading to nehalm in a few months and would like to be able to plug them straight in if possible.

Hopefully someone can help me with this info, would be very greatful.

Thanks.

 

[Pandobear]

I don't think that you can do this easily. The intel controller will allow you to create a RAID1 array that spans a percentage of your drives that is then bootable to load your OS (s) onto, and then once this is done you load Storage Matrix manager and can create a RAID0 array for speed use. This is obviously not what you had hoped for. I can find no reference to creating a bootable RAID0 array first, but it is worthwhile trying this in the raid bios setup.

The procedure is to create a raid array in the raid bios that spans only a percentage of your drives, load XP creating a logical drive that is a percentage of this array, then load Vista, which will create your boot manager, then load intel storage matrix and create the second array.

Hope this helps.