Abit ip35 pro jbod RAID

[dir3wolf]

I have three sata disks (1000GB, 500GB and 250GB) on intel controller and two IDE disks on jmicron controller (250GB and 160GB). Windows7 installed on 250GB disk.

I would like to enable jbod raid mode for IDE disks but I don't see any options in bios. Bios only has options to enable raid on intel controller. Any suggestions?

 

[vailr]

The JMicron controller is also for the 2 eSATA ports.
I suppose one could somehow use those for Raiding internal hard drives.
However, I would recommend moving any IDE HD's to external USB enclosures, for better system stability.
A JMicron controller with both IDE and SATA drives on it never seems to work very well.

 

[dir3wolf]

well, my sata drives are on intel controller, not on jmicron and jmicron supports jbod while intel doesn't. And I already have three external enclosures ;-). I suppose I should move ide disks out of this computer, and I intend to... eventually.
But in the meantime I want to use them, and one big disk (which jbod raid creates) gives me more maneuvering space than two small ones.

Is there a way I can create some kind of good hardware raid array with three SATA disks which are 250GB, 500GB and 1TB big? Can I partition them somehow to achieve redundancy and performance provided by RAID?

 

[vailr]

AFAIK, Raid requires both HD's to be the same size, and preferably the exact same
brand and model number.
As far as combining 2 drives to make one logical drive:
Windows has that ability. Right-click My Computer/Manage/Disk Management.