Need help with software raid - Boot drive

[Ogre67]

My current mobo does not have a onboard raid controller and upgrading to a i7 system is not possible and raid control cards or a new mobo seem a waste. However can software raid accomplish what I want to do?

I essentially want to run 2 or 3 WD 640 black drives in raid 0 using a small partition (150 gigs) for max os/game performance. I understand all the risks involved with software raid and my computer doesnt contain any mission critical info that isnt backed up elsewhere.

Anyways is there any way to do this on the software level? Ive been looking around and nobody specifically mentions this in the way i want to do it. I figure probably not, but thought its worth asking, maybe some wierd way to do it.

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3 HD's in software raid as the bootdrive with the OS on it... Possible?

 

[brandinb]

Windows software raid is not possible with a boot drive. A hardware based software raid is comptable but that costs money. I would just load the os on one disk and the other as raid0 for games if you want performance. I always try to avoid a raid boot drive unless performance is importaint above all other aspects. After you move your swap file and install all programs to other drives the speed of the boot drive is less importaint after bootup especially tru for vista machines with lots of ram.

Why not try a raptor or ssd for the boot drive and the wd blacks in raid0 with sw raid i would recommend that.