Newbie question on RAID drives...

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Okay, so I finally got four Seagate 500GBs together and I want to set up two of them to work as RAID and leave the other two for individual operation. My question is: If I set the option in the BIOS to RAID, must all the drives be configured as RAID or can I choose individually which one to work as RAID and others to work individually?

Hope I'm making sense...:D
 
It really depends on your raid controller. I'm seeing several P35 based boards in your sig, if it is those. I think all must be raid.
 
The PC I'm doing this on is the Asus P5E3 Premium based on the X48 chipset. So, all must be RAID? That's a bummer...I was hoping otherwise.
 
I have 5 harddrives on my Intel ICH9R RAID controller on my p35 chipset MB. I have 2 different RAID 0's. 2x250's, and 2x320's. I also have a lone 160gig hd. I have Vista on the 2x250's and XP on the 160, the 2x320's are for video editing. So I'm going to say yes, you can have a mix of RAID drives and single drives on the same controller.

The thing to keep in mind is if you install XP to the single drive like I did, or the RAID for that matter, you have to use the RAID driver to install XP, you can NOT just use the SATA driver. That will give you BSOD. Live and learn. Took me a while to figure that one out... :(
 
yes you can i have ICH8R and i have Vista on 2x200GB and XP on 1x36GB raptor they both run fine... plus lots of boards come with a second controller, if all else fails use that 2-port controller.
 
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