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Hi everyone,  I've just built my 5th computer, 2nd with AMD, but this is the first time that I've used the RAID feature.  So, I setup my two HD for RAID 1. Question #1)  How do I know if my RAID1 setup is working?  The Windows XP disk manager only shows one HD with ''no'' fault tolerance. Everything is running with XP ...

I have a Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6 mobo and Installed Vista 64. The 2 x WD 750Gb hard disks were configured in a Raid 1 (mirror) configuration. I never used the floppy driver (that you need to create) and installed Vista without a problem and it works great. How do I dertermine that Raid 1 works as designed and that the drivers are proper? Thanks

CthulthuDawn: Question is, can I achieve this by having 1 single larger hard drive than the raptors. Say I have 2 raptors at 150gb each (300 total) is it possible to have just 1  500GB drive to back up onto, or do i need 2 additional drives in a Raid 0? I'm a bit lost on that equation. Sticking to just the question above, NO, you cannot ...

I can't tell from your original post, but I assume you are using the onboard RAID option with the ICH9R southbridge. Write performance on RAID 5 without significant onboard (or onchip) RAM is very slow--I would certainly NOT recommend it.  If you can, get another drive and make it RAID 1+0 (much faster). Alternatively, there are add-on RAID ...

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