Help Setting Up RAID 0 Array

[dcgames]

I was wondering if anyone here has any experience setting up a RAID 0 array on a Gigabyte P35-DS4 mobo? I read the following about running a RAID 0 array to help enhance my Oblivion game play...

 

Setting up your system to run on a PAIR of very fast SATA hard drives is the first step towards alleviating this problem of massive disk swapping (and its resulting bottlenecks). Those drives should then be configured as a RAID 0 array. Oblivion and your other games should be run entirely from that array. By having a pair of drives operating in tandem, the data can be swapped back and forth at an enormously faster rate and your gameplay will be incredibly improved overall.

 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[prandiningrat]

First, BIOS must be configured for RAID before installing OS on your single SATA hard drive and will causing BSOD if you change the settings but not installing the driver on your OS. RAID0 required 2 to 6 hard drives. and your motherboard chipset supporting for this feature.

RAID0 can be created using either BIOS with Intel Matrix Storage Manager Option ROM or using software, Intel Matrix Storage Console..

if using Intel Matrix Storage Console, find the program Intel Matrix Storage Console or Intel Rapid Storage (iata_enu.exe or iata_cd.exe) usually shipped with your motherboard driver then install it first.

1. Run the Intel Matrix Storage Console

2. Switch to advanced mode if the console opens in basic mode. Select ‘Create RAID Volume’ from the Actions menu. This will launch the Create RAID Volume Wizard. Follow the instructions as prompted.

Notes : * when configuring volume, leave it strip size 128kb (this best performance for most desktop and workstations used for RAID0) and when specify the amount of available array space to be used by the new RAID volume(Specify Volume Size), leave it at 100% (For RAID0). because if you do not specify 100% of the hard drive space, the rest of hard drive space will be worked as RAID 1.

* It’s important to understand what will occur during the migration process because all data on the destination hard drive will be lost.

3. After the RAID volume is created, you will be shown a dialog box stating that the RAID volume was successfully created. Then you have to reboot your system.