Raid advice

[ndeller]

Okay so Im thinking of doing the following:

HDD1 (500GB):
50GB XP (stripped)
200GB Data (mirrored)
50GB Server 2003 (stripped)
50GB Games (stripped)

HDD2 (500GB):
50GB XP (stripped)
200GB Data (mirrored)
50GB Server 2003 (stripped)
50GB Games (stripped)

So in effect I have:
100GB XP
200GB Data (with the backup mirrored version)
100GB Server 2003
100GB Games

If I was going to do this what is the best way forward?
From what I can understand I will need to do the following:
Purchase Floppy drive and isntall
Create ICHxR Raid boot disk
Format both HDD's
Boot with ICHxR and create 3 stripped and 1 mirror partition.

Both drives should be left as Basic format? If I do it this way will I be able to dual boot between XP and Server 2003?

Also just to confirm is this called Matrix raid (striping and mirroring together)?

Thanks

 

[ndeller]

I have moved this to the Hard Drive section now because I thought it might be better associated to this thread.