P5k Deluxe Raid and Cooling Questions

[gblackwo]

I'm currently looking at the P5k Deluxe. I've been scouring the web and am pretty sure the Zalman 9700 will fit but am not entirely sure.

However, here is my big question about raids. Do you think I would have a problem having two sata drives in a raid 0 array, and a third sata drive outside the array?

 

[Val]

Put a fan near RAIDed disks and youll be fine.

 

[gblackwo]

I think the antec 900 will take care of cooling.

I was more asking if it is technically sound to have two duplicate drives in a raid 0 array, while having 1, maybe even 2 separate drives also in the machine, so I suppose in windows- the raided drives would show as one drive, while the separate drives would be- well separate.

 

[Val]

Matrix can even do RAID10 on 2 disks youll be fine.

 

[leeghoofd]

make sure there's also some airflow on the rear of the mobo , the mosfets on the bottom side tend to get very hot...hence why gigabyte opted for a passive mega cooler there...