Raid 0 Striped

Gareth

Gareth

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How do you go about setting up Raid 0 Striped on the ASUS P5Q-E motherboard? I have ordered an identical drive to my C drive, which will arrive on Tuesday from the egg, and I am wanting to RAID 0 my C:\ drive for extra performance :D
 
you will need to enable RAID in the bois then reset and hit a key when it says about raid and it will tell you what to do. you will need to format your hdd to get raid to work so just bear that in mind
 
You will need to backup your data to a separate drive first. In order to setup raid you will have to do a fresh install of windows, meaning you would lose any data on your existing drive.
 
Thats not a problem for me, I keep everything on my other hard drives, I only ever keep Windows on my C drive. My C drive is only a 250GB (the 750GB is my Gaming/Media drive).

Even My Documents/Pictures/Music folders are on my D drive.
 
With that board you have a choice between running your RAID through Drive Xpert via the two special orange SATA connectors or through the ICH10R SB Controller using Intel Matrix Storage Manager via the regular SATA connectors. Using Drive Xpert you can set up the RAID bypassing the regular BIOS route, but it recommends that you start the process using a total of three hard drives, though there are ways around this. You load the operating system on a regular hard drive then you migrate the data to the two RAID drives attached to the two orange SATA connectors. If, however, you chose to go the more conventional route and use the ICH10R SB RAID. You would attach two drives to the regular SATA connectors. Set the SATA configuration in the BIOS to RAID and hold down Ctrl + I when you boot to enter the RAID configuration menu and set up a RAID 0 drive. This leaves you with the task of loading RAID drivers when you load the operation system. This is most easily done with a floppy drive, but is possible with a USB flash drive. I’ve done it both ways and prefer the old fashion SB RAID, though I have to say I keep a floppy drive tucked away inside my case where no one can see it.
 
Thanks for everyones help, I have setup RAID 0 striped, and you cannot believe how much faster the computer is now, its almost unreal! I am amazed =)
 
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