Setting up a raid0

[shmacks]

Could anyone give me a quick run through of how to setup a raid on a from scratch please? I'll be trying to setup a raid0 for 2 x 500gb F3s and was after some advice on how to do it.

Is it just simply a case of connecting them both to the mobo SATA controllers and then banging whichever key it asks to setup a RAID as the PC loads?

The OS is Windows 7 and the motherboard will be the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) if that makes a difference.

Thanks in advance.

 

[shmacks]

Ok i think i've got the whole thing sussed out now. Just to confirm the driver i would need is the SATA driver which i would get from the motherboard manufacturer website (link) and stick that on any only usb stick which will be boot prio after configuring the boot order in the bios.

Can i just confirm that the raid driver required is an exe file? Seems to me like it should be something else.

Thanks

 

[shmacks]

ok cheers guys, i'm getting mixed reports on if i need raid drivers with win7 or not. Some people are saying their raids aren't detected but these posts are far and few. I'll keep the drivers on usb as backup just in case and if that goes **** up i'll just install them as seperate and use the win7 software approach.

The pc should be coming tomorrow so i'll update this after i build it over the weekend.