Windows 7 RTM and raid setup

I read Jakamo5 raid setup guide here http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=327669
but i run into problem. The step 3) in that guide is different for me. (I have the latest .17 bios in my P7811FX by the way.) I bought 2x500GB Seagate disks to put them on raid 0. I changed the "Quiet boot" to off and disk setup to RAID in bios. Restarted and when asked, i pressed Ctrl+I. Then the first choise where you can create RAID volume. I wrote the name and choosed stripe size 16KB, like reccomended in guide. Then i chosed the 2 physical volumes (2x500GB, i have one external 1500GB also). Then it ws bacily done. But i tought that it askes me to create optional 2 partition, like mentioned in guide. Whit larger stripe size, for movies and pictures. But instead i got one huge RAID 0 with 16kb stripe. Then i changed "Quiet Boot" ON again in bios. And then started the Win 7 Ultimate installation. Now here i tough i need to set cluster size, like mentioned in the guide, but that Win 7 installation never asked it. When i created volume from Unallocated space, it only created extra 100mb volume from which 86mb was free? I dunno what is that volume, i suspect thats something to do with RAID.

And HWmonitor113 doesnt show my RAID volume or any temperature, only shows my big 1.5TB external HDD? And my HDTune 3.00 read performance is choppy as well. And i can't use write benchmark, it says that writing is disabled...
i belive i installed latest chipset drivers and raid controllers. Any ideas?
And how do i make another partition now with 128KB stripe when OS is already installed? Good thing is that i havent put any data on, so i can reconfigure the RAID. If somebody can give me step by step instructions that would be awsome

 

That 100MB is for back up for Windows 7 system files. When you switch to raid your HD temps are gone and only monitors one HD if it monitors at all. Try unistalling and rebooting again to get the writing stats to read.
My default stripe size is 128k. Which works great for my CAD work. I havent tried lowering it with my two SSDs.


http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=326947&page=1

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=332725&page=2

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=1461

For some:

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/entvideos/raid?c=us&l=en&s=gen/


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info:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140365

http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/13747/what-cluster-size-does-a-fatntfs-partition-use.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/43125-32-raid

 

What about cluster sizes? Vista and Win 7 doesnt allow it to be modified any more or what?

 

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**Correction:

Windows is able to do it through admin tools but its not called clusters anymore its called Allocation Unit Size 512 bytes to 64k bytes.