Adding in more drives

[Blackjack]

Alright, so i just recently purchased 2 400GB SATA drives to add to the rig in my sig and i was wondering how i should configure them. Originally i was planning on setting them up in raid 0 and running my games and OS off of them putting all my data on the 500 gig that i already have. Now i realize the risks involved with RAID 0 and since there is no extremely critical data (none that isnt backed up) i think that it would be a viable option to increase the speed of data transfer (at least for large files). I don't want to buy any additional cards so i would be using my 680i's built in RAID.

1. Would this be a better option than going with 3 separate discrete drives?
2. How the hell do you set up a RAID 0 array on the 680i as the manual is...cryptic...at best.

Thanks in advance.

P.S. The drives are Hitachi with model number hds724040klsa80 (bought them off computerpro3)

 

[Blackjack]

Bump, i could really use and answer here

 

[Farva]

I'd keep them separate and save myself from the headache.

 

[Sparkyy]

I would keep them separate as well, I ran XP in RAID 0 for 4 yrs or so, now I run Vista on a raptor, games on on a raptor and Virtual Pcs/Newsgroups on a third hard drive. Keep things split up so that if you decided to download something, game and do updates, you won't be slow because of the hard drives.