Best storage solution for my setup.

[rxteenager]

Hi guys,

Hopefully next week i'll complete my I7 build(just waiting for the heatsink to arrive). I'm planning on buying another 2x 1.5TB hdd's. But I also wanted a GTX 460, because of budget limits I might not be able to buy these. So i'm left with the desicion of getting just 1hdd, i might have to go with a 1tb hdd.

My setup will be the following
Antec 300
Antec True power Trio 650w hdd
16GB DDR3 1333MHZ- Hynix
i7- 860
x2 128gb corsair ssd's in raid
x2 640gb wd hdd's in raid
Gigabyte UD3 motherboard.

Now since my motherboard has two sata controllers, one sata 2 and another sata 3. I'll be running the ssd's on one controller.

THE BIG QUESTION IS.
Could I use any raid setup to create a 1tb partition with the 2x 640gb hdd's + 1tb hdd??
Or would I be stuck with creating a raid 0 array with the 2x 640gb hdd's and backing it up with the 1tb hdd??

Any suggestions?

 

[Dangman]

THE BIG QUESTION IS.
Could I use any raid setup to create a 1tb partition with the 2x 640gb hdd's + 1tb hdd??
Or would I be stuck with creating a raid 0 array with the 2x 640gb hdd's and backing it up with the 1tb hdd??

IIRC, Intel Matrix RAID will let you do that. But not 100% sure.

Also, it would not be a good idea at all for 640GB RAID 0 and backing up to the 1TB HDD. That's just seems like a recipe for disaster.

 

[rxteenager]

Well the only reason why I would make a RAID0 from the two 640gb hdd's would be to expand my storage capacity, they're currently in RAID1 and I know that if I add the 1tb hdd it'll still be 640 right? The information on those drives are mainly movies and game backups, I currently have an external 500gb hdd that's acting for backup to the most critical stuff family pictures and some of my favorite movies.