Serial ata sata hard drive

Hi members
I have a msi k8mm3 motherboard and want to connect a serial sata raid hd. but when i press tab to go into sata bios a get error message saying you need 2 hd to setup can some one tell me how to set up a diamond max 7L300RO serial ata sata raid and what the error meam.robin

You need the same size and preferably brand/model to make a RAID 0 or 1
With raid-0 you can, in theory, increase read/write performance. If one drive goes bad, you lose all data on both disks (half of the data is written to one disk, half to the other at the same time, that's why the performance comes from). In daily life, you won't notice that much of an increase, unless you work with many large files (video editing).
With Raid-1, you continuously make a copy of the disk you work from. In Windows you will only "see" one of both disks. The RAID controller sees to it that the data you write, is written to both disks, so if one goes bad, you can continue working from the other.
If you want to use only one SATA disk, you can. Set it to IDE in your bios or disable SATA RAID.
You can find the how-to in your board's manual.

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