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 2 500GB drives.

I want to partition each of the 2 drives into 4 sections:
XP(Striped), Games(striped), Server 2003(striped), Data(mirrored)

 

[ndeller]

oh right, I thought you could do.
Can a drive in Raid format have any partitions on it at all? So as long as you are mirrioring by itself cna you still have partitions.

 

[ndeller]

So in order to get my data mirrored I would in theory have to get 2 additional hard drives?

Hmmm not sure I will both with raid then. Just seems like a whole lot of hassle.

 

[ndeller]

Yeah I think if I do anything I will simply stripe the drives because to be honest If its really important I backup to my external hard drive and if extra extra important I backup to dvd as well

 

[ndeller]

Aha, I thought it was possible with Intel-Matrix Raid, thanks for confirming this rpstewart.

Raid of partitions is gonna be very handy