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Really stupid RAID question
I'll apologize ahead of time if this is in the wrong forum.
I'm about to install 7 Home Prem x64. My PC has two 80GB SATA II drives and three 500GB Sata II's. I have Vista installed on one of the 500's and XP installed on one of the other 500GB drives.
What I would like to do is to enable a RAID 1 setup with the two 80GB drives and then install Win 7 to them as a bootable array, and then use the 500's as data drives. (I'm keeping XP on one of them and wiping Vista after the new install.)
What I need to know, is if this will work. I think I understand how a RAID setup works, but I haven't got any experience with mixing RAID arrays with normal drives, and my motherboard manual isn't exactly helpful.
Can anybody spare a little advice for a RAID noob?
Thanks.