Need RAID Advice...

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Ziontrain

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I have 2 320GB Seagate 7200.10 drives. I bought another motherboard and come to find out it only will RAID 1 internal and 1 external. I should have read the specs more closely, it still doesn't make any sense to me. I just need to know what RAID controller to use to make it work. I don't know much about RAID so I don't want to buy an expensive pci raid controller if I don't have to, I just need one to work for 2 internal SATA drives. I want to run RAID 0.

Can someone point me in the right direction?
 
Rosewill RC-211 Silicon Image 2 port SATA II PCI Express Host Controller Card(RAID 0/1/JBOD) ~ $25 on newegg
 
From your manual, you need to connect a drive to your external SATA port on your rear I/O panel, then another drive onto the eSATA connector on the motherboard, located between the edge of the board and the PCI slots, labeled SATA_E2.

You can get an eSATA-SATA connector from satacables.com or any other retailer. You can leave off one of the blank PCI slot covers and direct that cable into the case and plug in your internal HDDs. Then you need to enable RAID on the jmicron controller and hit CTL+J to configure the array.
 
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