I have just finished my first build. So far so good... I have one question at the moment. I have 5 x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 hard drives. One I am using as the C: drive and the other four I am planning to use in Raid 5 configuration. I have managed to set up one volume in the BIOS (may decide to create smaller volumes, but that's another story). I have installed Vista Business and I can see the VOlume as unallocated space. Apart from un allocating the space and creating partitions is there anything else I need to do to complete the Raid 5 setup. I can't see that there's anything, but didn't know if I needed a Raid Controller. This is all new to me so I'm not sure? If anyones asking why I decided to do this, I've done it as something new to learn, and I will find the Raid 5 setup useful. Thanks Abbo
I've heard if your using a raid controller it prefers to use odd numbers of disks well for some controllers eg nforce http://forums.storagereview.com/ind...uperb-write-speeds-with-nforce-onboard-raid5/ . it might be better if in the bios you set all the disks to raid, then raid 5 the whole lot, you'll see more of an improvement with boot times, if you desperatly want to have seperate drives you can always partition them quickly.
