Anyone running RAID 0 VelociRaptors w/ X58?

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I just ordered a second VelociRaptor 300GB to run RAID 0 on my Asus Rampage II Extreme board.

I am curious if anyone else has this setup and if there are any tricks/tips/gremlins to watch out for?
 
Something more important to pay attention to would be the motherboard's Southbridge - X58 utilizes the ever-familiar ICH10R, which for all intents and purposes for RAID 0/1/10/0+1 is pretty good at doing simple RAID functionality like that. :)

As for RAID5, well, for hardware-assisted software RAID, your mileage may vary. ;)
 
Congrats - you're gonna LOVE that second VR in RAID0.. Just shortstroke them on the ICH10R and you'll be a happy camper.
 
Thank you for the responses.

I gather it should be a quick and easy setup. Any particular BIOS options or settings I should look out for? This is my first RAID setup.
 
Use a small stripe size for OS raid volume,
since OS drives tend to random access little files all over the place
rather than do sequential reads of big files.

At first I had my OS drive at 256kb stripe (the default setting)
but it was even slower than a single drive.

After I recreated the array with 16kb stripe (the smallest setting)
my speeds increased dramatically.
 
Thank you!! now these are the things I would never have known.
 
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