Help with Raid setup

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jsilva

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For all you Raid experts out there, I need some help with my project.

Currently I'm running Vista-64 in my system, but I want to update to Win7-64 with a Raid-0 setup. I have a MSI 975X Platinum board. This board has been very good and I have no complaints. I just want to get some hands on experience with raid setups. Here are the specs related to the Chipset/Raid:

• Intel® ICH7DH Chipset with Intel Matrix Raid support.
- Hi-Speed USB (USB2.0) controller, 480Mb/sec, up to 8 ports.
- 4 SATAII ports with transfer rate up to 3Gb/s.
- 1 channel Ultra ATA 100 bus master IDE controller.
- PCI Master v2.3, I/O APIC.
- ACPI 2.0 compliant.
- Serial ATA RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1.
- Integrated AHCI controller.

I have the option in the Bios for selecting Raid, so I guess the next step would be selecting the drives for the array. But what's next after that? Do I have to create the raid array first and then install Win7? Can I create the Raid array while doing the Win7 setup? Do I need a floppy to install drivers? I don't have a floppy drive...

Any help would be appreciated. :confused:
 
Select the drives in the bios, select the stripe size (128k), and it will build it. Save and reboot and install like normal, choosing the raid as the destination. Quick format will work fine.
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