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disk 0 confiuraton

i'm new to this...  what is the purpose of the disk 0 configuration raid controller. ?
It has nothing to with RAID. RAID's configured on the JBOD. I'm confused. Help.
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hi triceice,

is there any other Disk 0 conguration for the point of OS, not for RAID
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In Win 7 here is the way

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/36504/how-to-create-a-software-raid-array-in-windows-7/

But this option will never be as good as any kind of Hardware RAID.
Just reread your comment. Let start over. In plain terms: What do you want to do?
Ditto, what the heck is a "Disk 0 conguration" (or even a Disk 0 configuration)?
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Really, doesn't matter what you want to do. I can't ever recommend RAID0 for any home PC except in one situation.  The performance gain is limited to large-block sequential I/O, and unless the purpose of the machine is a dedicated home theatre system, where you don't mind if everything gets lost, then it is just a waste of money that doubles the chance of total data loss (since losing one disk means losing all the data on both disks)

If you have win7 then that supports software RAID1. This does read balancing, so in perfect world, each disk does half the I/O.  Under reads, you'll get better performance then if you had a single drive, no matter what you are doing, plus it protects you against data loss in event you get a bad block or a disk fails.  On writes, you are no worse off then if you just had one disk.  

Too many people think RAID0 is the answer to performance problems.  Real-world, it often creates more problems.  
 
P.S. Even if it is a media server, a single HDD is often good enough unless you have several HD streams working at once.