Accessing RAID half way through build

I know this is a desktop computer but as I know the people on here have a large wealth of knowledge, I thought i'd ask.

I am just about to build a desktop computer and am going to implement a RAID 0 array for my media and have a separate boot drive. I was just wondering if it was possible to do these stages:-

1. make the RAID array on the motherboard
2. boot up ubuntu on a usb stick copy my existing media of an external hard drive so that I can then take the HDD out of the case and use it as my boot drive
3. install windows on it and access my raid.

I hope this is alright otherwise i might be shelling out another £80

Thanks for any help

 

RAID0 for media? Are you sure you don't mean RAID1?

That will work for the installation process. For the RAID to work, you may need to install dmraid on the Live image.

If the RAID array isn't picked up automatically, do:

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dmraid
sudo dmraid -ay

 

I have most of it backed up on another hard drive and couldn't really afford the redundancy. Looked at raid 5 but again budget came into it. Will probably go 0+1 if my controller supports it when i have more money.

Thanks for confirming that my idea will work.

cheers

 

RAID0 with backups is fine, you shouldn't need the redundancy.

If something goes wrong, feel free to report back.