Raid 0 with 10 000 rpm on K9A Platinium

Hello all
I buy a K9A Platinium last week and i waiting for receive it but my question is : Can i do a Raid 0 with my 2 Western Digital 150 Go 10 000 rpm on it ??
Thanks for futur answers and sorry for my bad english ^^.

yep, i have 2 wd 150 raptors on that board over a month now in raid 0. no problems other than i would like to use a bigger stripe .
p.s. after you get windows installed update that raid driver first thing. it gave me quite a few problems.

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lilsirecho wrote:When using mdadm for a raid0 in my machine, the assembly of the raid md0 is made during initrd. A statement for md0 and its 2 drives appears during boot-up.
I can't see any statement about creating any of my mdX devices.
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Last edited by flo (2010-04-21 19:25:03)

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