SATA RAID on the ASUS P5N32-SLI SE

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I built my machine last night, and had been planning to put two 250Gb Western Digital SATA HDDs in a RAID 0 configuration inside.

I think I had assumed that there would be two SATA Raid connectors on the motherboard, and I'd just have to plug one drive into each.

Unfortunately, I found only one SATA RAID connector, so obviously I was wrong.

The board came with three or four SATA cables, each of which is one to one.

How do I physically need to connect the two drives to that one connector to get RAID working? Do I need a special cable that wasn't included with the motherboard? (ie. 1 to 2?)

Alternately, if anyone knows a good howto article on doing the physical configuration for a SATA RAID 0 setup, I'd appreciate a link - my searches have turned up much more noise than signal.

Thanks!

-Dan

 

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Partially answering my own question - after taking a closer look at the manual (It was late when I was doing the building...), the SATA1, SATA2, SATA3... etc. ports are the ones to connect to for the nForce4 RAID controller.

The single connector labled SATA RAID is for a second RAID controller, which has one connector on the motherboard, and a second external connector. I'm not sure why they did this, as having an internal HD and an external HD which are otherwise identical seems a bit unlikely, and using that external one in a RAID configuration also seems weird - unless it's intended to connect to an external HD enclosure with multiple drives and enable RAID for them? Can it even do that?