Setting up Sata Raid 0, questions.

[sCribes]

I am going by the guide found here,

GUIDE

This is the first time i have ever setup a raid array, and i have a question.

I am doing everything as listed in the guide, at this point i have booted into windows xp from an ide drive, and am in computer management/storage, etc.. to format drives. I have setup the raid to be raid 0 with 16k cluster sizes and set as 16k from the format inside xp. Anyway, my question is this. I have 2 identical 120gig sata drives, and in xps storage management, its showing them as one drive, at 240 gigs. Is that correctly depicted for a raid stripe 0?

Thanks

 

[sCribes]

i believe i got it all the way it should be. It says its set as a raid 0 etc...

However, it shows only one drive, and it says its 240gig, is that what it should say for a 0 stripe?

Thanks

and props to the man that wrote up that guide, wouldnt have been able to do it without it, or woulda took longer, and more aspirin.

 

[sCribes]

ttt

anyone confirm this status for me.??? ease my mind please..heh.

Thanks

 

[zildjianchris]

Pretty sure you got it right. It describes raid 0 perfectly doesn't it.

 

[ShivX]

Ya dude, when you do a raid 0, it will display your drives as one, yet split on both.

 

[sCribes]

Thanks, i was pretty sure, just wanted some confirmation from someone with experience in that area.

On another note, i believe i can honestly see a pretty big difference from my old 40 and 120 ide drives to this raid 0 120 gig matching serial ata drives. Unraring seems to go smoother, everything loads a butt load faster. I have yet to install BF2, so im excited to see if theres a difference there.

Thanks