setting up a raid0
 

I need a little help setting up a ssd 60gb vertex turbo and two w.d. 1 tb hard drives in a raid0 configuration in windows 7-64 bit. I may have done this wrong the status showes normal stripe is 128 its showing 178.8 usable total disk space and 0-disk 59.6, 1-disk 931.5, 2-disk 931.5 ?? my question is why is it only showing 178.8 as a total space ?? Thanks

delete any and all paritions on the drives separately and when set into raid mode.

Your trying to set up 3 drives that do not mach in size....Bios will only let you have the size of the smallest disk x 3 in this case......Vertex is 60gb....x3 is 180........keep the vertex seperate from the 2 WD drives when creating a Raid Volume or you will lose the extra storage of your WD drives.

Hope it helps. :)

Best strip size for a HDD is normally 64KB or 128KB however for a SSD it's more like 16KB. If your booting of the SSD'd you might want to put them in the 1st sata connections ( 0 and 1 ) and the HDDS in 2 and 3.

raid0
 

ok, I'm still not quite sure I only put the two 1 tb in raid and NOT the ssd? The ssd is 0 and 1 & 2 are the 1 tb's I have a 4th non raid hd for backup on 3.

Use either SSD's or HDD's just dont mix them. Why i say that is when you come to defrag or the system auto defrags( which should be turned off if a SSD is in the system ) will wear out the SSD much faster.

SSD's do not require defraging were HDD's do time to time.