3rd HD w/ RAID config

[cwiz]

lil help here,

i'm looking at getting a 500GB internal drive for media. I've got my Raptors (Serial ATA150) in RAID.

What would be the best way to install it?

I know when i was setting up my RAID, they asked me which of the 4 SATA ports were going to be in RAID. I said 1 and 2 because that was the slots my Raptors were in. can i just plug the 500GB HD in the 3rd slot and roll?

I'm lookin at this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136073

what is the difference between Serial ATA150 and SATA 3.0?

is SATA just an abrieviation for Serial ATA? in that case, is the Serial ATA150 a SATA1.5Gb/s?

I'm pretty sure this is my exact mobo (i'm away from my documentation right now )
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=727

thanks!

 

[Law]

They should be the same size hard drive because it defaults to the smallest size, it will still work. I don't know if SATAI and SATAII makes a difference but it would probably just default to the lowest speed.

I recommend you get two of those SATAII 500GB and use RAID 1 for fault tolerance. RAID 1 can still give you a good performance since the load can be split to 2 or 3 hard drive since they share the same data. I recommend RAID 1 over 0 just because of this, 0 has no fault tolerance.

 

[cwiz]

errr.... not what i'm trying to do. I want the 500GB HD independent of my raid configuration. I only want my OS and games on the RAID 0, then i want my media on the solo 500GB HD

 

[Law]

In that case than yea, there shouldn't be any problem, just plug it in, Windows will recognize it but you have to go to Computer management>Disk Management and initiate it, create it as logical extended partition, assign a drive letter and format it to NTFS.

I thought you wanted to join it to your RAID setup, sorry bout that.