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If you are planning a striped array you could span the volume across pairs or even more then two drives. The initial install of 7 here on this case was to the first of the pair of S3 drives while the two S2 models were unplugged to avoid being seen as Disk 0. That was the first drawback of not seeing the boot information placed on the wrong drive.
You have to see which drive there will be seen first once you move the 7 host drive around for sure and likely need to unplug the drive plugged in where that is now before any repair or clean install if needed at some point.
An array however is generally a separate from OS drive type of set up where you go into the bios to select which drives listed by model series will be included in it. Each bios version has it's own options to go over preferably outlined in the manual for the board itself. Without any changes being made you should look them over ahead of time to get familiar with what the finish would be like.
The best MS reference for this however is seen at Windows and GPT FAQ That takes you through the general list of questions as it explains a good number of things.
For which commands to use at the command line you can always go back to MS for the DiskPart commands and definitions page. DiskPart Command-Line Options I toyed a little with an array on the last build while 7 was still in beta and somewhat with the RC but dumped the idea wanting the extra drives for testing varions things.
With the second OS drive now split up for system mages and another OS entirely I found the new partition table option there was a one clck deal when having used GParted for this back in 2009. Once I broke the array later however that was where the fun began of wiping each drive separately while the other was unplugged! If I simply reformatted on while the other was unplugged it would only resync back again as part of the array.
The command you would be using for spanning two drives rather then seein a Raid 5 set up would be "create volume stripe". This will also see a dynamic not basic volume created across the drives used! I thought I would let you know about that.