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Whats the best way to setup a raid? thru the Mobo or OSx


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I have 2 sets or identical drives... 2 - 150gb WD's that I want to put my OS on and 2 - 620gb WD's that I want to use as my multimedia drive. My mother board does RAID 0,1,5 and 10... now I noticed in Disk Utility I can set up Raid also. For my OSx86 MAC whats the best way to setup the Raid, thru the Mobo or thru Disk Utility?

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Hardware raid 0 via a PCI card controller. Works for a lot of people. Make a bit of search and you will find it ;)

 

I did do a search and the first 4 or 5 pages were all related to changing SATA/RAID settings to ACHI during an install. :)

 

Right now my 2 - 150gb drives are setup for a raid thru the Mobo and for some reason OSx sees the two seperate drives not just then Raid set.

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Yes, it's normal cause OS X86 don't support native Raid out of the box. The only thing I see is an old topics which I post and the guys had a problem to dual boot with OS X and Vista on stripped raid. And that's from here, anotherguy said to me you for having RAID, you use the Apple software. Here is the link

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Yes, it's normal cause OS X86 don't support native Raid out of the box. The only thing I see is an old topics which I post and the guys had a problem to dual boot with OS X and Vista on stripped raid. And that's from here, anotherguy said to me you for having RAID, you use the Apple software. Here is the link

 

So setting up a Raid thru the Mobo wont work. I need to set it up thru Disk Utility to get it to properly see the drives as a set, correct?

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