going from SCSI to SSD ?

[the snake]

okay, this concerns the PC in my signature,

main parts are windows XP64, abit P35pro mobo, LSI brand PCI-E 320 ultra SCSI card, 2 ultra320 146GB drives not in any sort of raid, a 2TB storage drive on internal sata ports, 2 dvd drives on internal sata ports.

i just got 2 128GB corsair SSD's and would like to run them in raid-0 connected to internal sata ports.

for now i just want to setup a fast SSD raid-0 to benchmark and play with for awhile.

can i setup the raid-0 with the other drives connected to internal sata ports, or would i have to run dvd drives and 2TB drive some other way ?

also, at a later time can i just true image over my non-raid scsi install to the SSD raid-0, and then dual boot between them, or even run windows 7 on the new SSD raid-0 and dual boot back to the scsi XP64 OS ?

eventually i will be upgrading to either bulldozer or sandybridge, but it may be awhile for that LOL

oh and do i need to check for SSD alignment or something like that in XP ?
if so how do i do that ?

 

[the snake]

okay i got the drives installed and set them to raid-0 for now ,i am still running xp64 off the scsi drive,

do these benchmarks look normal........

i did enable write cache in the intel storage matrix deal, really seemed to help and i have aligned the array now through command prompt.

 

[the snake]

well i have my XP64 OS cloned over now, and i pulled the SCSI OS drive out for now, of course with all the drive juggling and whatnot, now i need to reactivate winders within 3 days, going to wait and see if i feel brave and install winders 7 on it first though, man i hate setting up a new OS

only issue is my older version of true image made me delete the partition that i had setup already aligned, does the latest version of true image allow me to align it in XP64 ?

version 11 is on sale now so i might just buy it anyways.