RAID 0+1

[Joe Desa]

I want to set up RAID 0+1 on a Soyo SY-P4X400 Dragon Ultra (HighPoint HPT 327 RAID controller) with 4 WD 120GB HDD's, Win XP pro. Can anyone tell me how to do this or point me to a good tutorial or something?

Here's where I'm @. I have the hardware installed. 4 HDD's on IDE 3 & 4. Created a 0+1 array in the BIOS configuration utility.

What do I do next?

Also, I think my 350watt power supply might be a little on the light side for this set up. Am I going to need a larger power supply and if so how big?

Thanks,

Joe

[Siliconjunkie]

Any particular reason you want to run 0+1? You do get double redundancy, but at the cost of poor space efficency, 25% I think. So you will have 120 gig of usable space. RAID 1 will give you 240 gig and for all intents and purposes be just as safe. I have set them up plenty but not with 4 drives on IDE.

On the p/s, what else are you running? That will make a big difference on weither or not it will be enough.

[sam]

here is a site on different raid configerations
http://www.acnc.com/04_01_00.html

i use just RAID 0 with an extra drive for back up( not in raid)

[Buzioid]

DFI LANPARTY NFII ULTRA
RAID 1.5 only 2 HD!

[woodbutcher]

Also on the PS who makes it.
Is it a good quality such as an Antec or Enermax.
Personally, I would up the PS. 4 HD's, say a CD-RW and DVD player, modern CPU 4 or 5 fans, you get the idea.

WB

[sam]

i have a enermax 431w ps with RAID 0 (3drives) 12 fans total ,xp2100,soundcard ,ti4200, cd/rw,dvd.didgital doc, 27" of CC lighting, lighted fan speed bus ,flooppy ,card reader and have no problems with power runnin 24/7

[Joe Desa]

Thanks. I think I've got it.

0+1 because I want the performance of 0, striping, and the redundancy of 1, mirroring.

The power supply is a Turbolink. I have an Enermax but it is also 350watt. It will need to run a Radeon 9700 or 9800 pro, DVD/ROM, DVD/CD burner, 3 fans, a media reader and a floppy.

[Joe Desa]

I'm trying to install XP pro. After formating I get the message to "Inset the disk labled: WPT370/372/372A ATA RAID Controler Driver Diskette" But it is not loading the drivers from the disk. I have tried taking them out of the folder. I have also downloaded them, ecpanded them, and still no joy. Any ideas?

[Siliconjunkie]

They have to be in the root of the disk, sounds like you may not have the right drivers if thats not the case.

Also, with IDE there is little if any performance gain to RAID 0 from what I have read. Certainly not enough to only use 25% of the space you bought IMO.

[Joe Desa]

It says "HPT370/372/372A ATA RAID Controller Driver Diskette" and the XP, NT, Win98_ME drivers are there along with the readme.txt and the Txtsetup.oem