Help with RAID

[AeternusDoleo]

I've had the same trouble with a striping array kapoofing every now and then. Turned out to be one of the SATA cables Asus had supplied wasn't quite up to spec... replacing the data cables on both the disks in the array sorted the issue for me.

The Vista issue you reference isn't a Vista/7 issue, but a driver issue. Check for updated drivers at the mainboard vendor's driver website.

But my plea for help/knowledge is about RAID and RAID 1 specifically. I dug up by googling that you can't put hardware RAID to an existing system. You need to reinstall the Win 7. Which is out of the question, so anyone here know if you can do a SW RAID and specifically can you configure the said RAID 1 concern only HDDs you specify?

Bullcrap, especially if you intend to boot from a non-RAID drive. It's true that all data on the disks you plan to make an array out of will be destroyed, but Windows should pick up the new hardware just fine. Adding hardware RAID to a system involves putting a controller for such in one - most mainboards these days have such a controller onboard. Just make sure you tell it to boot from the non-SATA drive first instead of trying to boot from RAID.

Software RAID isn't something I would advise using.

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