- Jul 31, 2007
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I am going to be setting up my new R2E later this week and wanted to do a RAID 0 with 3 WD6400AAKS for the OS & APPS and, if possible, RAID 1 with a pair of Caviar Green WD10EADS 1TB for my data.
(I had one of each of the drives already so it is an inexpensive, upgrade $90 for the 1TB drive and $140 for the pair of 640's)
Here's the stupid questions:
Will it work with the on-board RAID controller?
(Performance is an issue, but I am not the type to spend an extra $300 to get 5% )
Any particular reason I should, or shouldn't, use JMicron or the Intel Matrix?
I don't need 1.8 TB (3x640) for my OS/programs, does it make sense to partition the 640's so the OS (Vista Ultimate 64) is on the outside of the platters? I don't recall seeing that option available in the BIOS RAID setup... when do you do that?
(I have the OS & my apps installed on about 150 GB now; 640GB would probably be plenty)
Thanks
(I had one of each of the drives already so it is an inexpensive, upgrade $90 for the 1TB drive and $140 for the pair of 640's)
Here's the stupid questions:
Will it work with the on-board RAID controller?
(Performance is an issue, but I am not the type to spend an extra $300 to get 5% )
Any particular reason I should, or shouldn't, use JMicron or the Intel Matrix?
I don't need 1.8 TB (3x640) for my OS/programs, does it make sense to partition the 640's so the OS (Vista Ultimate 64) is on the outside of the platters? I don't recall seeing that option available in the BIOS RAID setup... when do you do that?
(I have the OS & my apps installed on about 150 GB now; 640GB would probably be plenty)
Thanks