RAID 0 array in Windows 7

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I have an Asus P5Q-Pro motherboard and i just put in two new WD Caviar Black 1tb drives. My intention was to RAID 0 (stripe) these for performance. I got through the Intel Matrix Storage Manager and setup the raid there. Everything looks good and it's showing i have a raid 0 array from 2 disks. Although, i'm a bit confused since it says the array size is 18xx mb. I thought it should just be ~1 tb since we're striping for a RAID 0. When i boot into windows it also reports the drive size as 1.8tb.

Am i doing something wrong?

 

[bastage]

that is correct.. It will be just under the complete capacity with raid 0.. What your referring to in only showing 1tb is raid 1 which is mirroring & everything is duplicated.. But striping is only writing half the data to each drive so there is no duplication so you keep your total capacity.

 

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Thanks for the clarification.