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Hard drive setup woes

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I am about to switch out my current hard drives (which are failing) for a new set.

My pc is up 24/7 so I require fast and reliable hard drives that would be up for the task.
I decided to go with 2 Western Digital Raptor WD740ADFD (74GB) and 2 Western Digital Caviar RE2 WD4000YR (400GB).
My only issue is that my motherboard is slightly outdated and I am not sure if I can run all of them at once.
My Main board is a MSI 875P Neo (rev.A2) which has an ICH5R and a Promise 20378 for another 2 SATA ports.

Now onto the question:
Am I correcting in thinking I can set up both Raptors on the southbridge's SATA connectors as 2 single drives and the 2 Caviar REs as a RAID 1 set up?

Would that leave me with 3 drives in windows? Or will I be facing some errors that prevent this?
 
You've basically got the idea. The only thing I'd suggest is dropping the pair of 74 g raptors and replacing them with 1 150 g drive. Unless you have some specific application that requires seperate drives you'll save money with the larger drive, and gain quite a bit of performance too.
 
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