IP35-pro raid noob question...

[dogfoo]

Hello all,

Just a quick raid question...

I am thinking of moving from a single disk set up on my ip35-pro (my raptor is playing up!) to raid1 on 2 500gb drives. I haven't done this before and was wondering whether or not it's possible to set up, for example, 2 40gb partitions for the raid1 windows install and leave the rest free and un-raided so I could get the full benefit of the space? Or, when you come to set up raid, does it only see the whole disks rather than any partitions (in which case I am loathed to do this as so much space would be lost!).

Thanks in advance

[noveltylamp]

Both 500gb disks would be seen as just one 500gb disk by the Operating System in RAID 1.

[dogfoo]

damn, I thought that might be the case.

thanks for the reply, appreciated.

[Fraz]

I thought you could do that matrix-raid stuff on the IP35 pro, so you can have 2 disks but have two raid setups? Here is a quote from the intel site:

For those users who wish to combine the benefits of two RAID levels, matrix RAID is the solution. When using two hard drives, matrix RAID allows RAID 0 and RAID 1 functions to be combined, where critical files can be stored on RAID 1, and RAID 0 can be used for non-critical items such as software.

more here:

Intel® Matrix Storage Technology

[dogfoo]

now that sounds perfect, I may have to have a look into that!

Thanks mate.

[OldRoy]

"For those users who wish to combine the benefits of two RAID levels, matrix RAID is the solution. When using two hard drives, matrix RAID allows RAID 0 and RAID 1 functions to be combined, where critical files can be stored on RAID 1, and RAID 0 can be used for non-critical items such as software."

I am just building an aBit Pro based box - my first attempt and this sounds good to me too. The instructions for the raid setup in the manual seem to require a FLOPPY - amazing. I have just printed out the link you made but may I just ask briefly if it's possible to build the os on a single drive and then upgrade it to the matrix format?
I have 2 Samsung 500 Gb drives.