Z87-GD65 Raid setup question

I have a Z87-GD65. I have a Samsung 250GB SSD as my main C: drive. I also have 2 1TB WD hard drives that I like to put into a Raid1 config. Can I just create the raid array with the 2 WD drives and leave the OS drive alone? In the BIOS, should I be setting the SATA mode to Raid? Will that mess with the Windows install on the SSD since it was AHCI? I'm a little confused here on how to proceed.

Ok, I got it working per your instructions. Thanks for the info. Under the iaStorA and iaStorAV section in the registry, there is a sub-section under each called "Startup Parameters" and had a key of "zero" with a setting of "3". I changed those to "0" and rebooted, went into the BIOS, changed to Raid from ACHI, and I was able to Boot the OS on the SSD without problems. I rebooted again, went into the Raid BIOS, created the Raid 1 with the 2 drives and got into Windows. Went into the Intel Storage manager, initialized the Raid volume which took about 3 hours.
Thanks for the info. Everything worked great.

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