Running a RAID5 array with 2 SSD's and a mechanical hard drive under XP possible ?

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9. Sorry, you can't

RAID5 requires at least three drives. They will also have to be the same size (if they're bigger, most controllers will ignore extra space and you waste money), and preferably the same kind and spec, although there's wiggle room.

If you have two equal drives to use you have to ask yourself what you want.

If you want redundancy (if one fails there's no data loss), you want RAID1, which mirrors the disks.

If you want speed you use RAID0, which stripes data across the disks. Warning, now if one of two drives fails you lose everything on both drives.

If he's just running Windows and wants it to run faster, then RAID0 is what you're looking for. IIRC you can't do that to the Windows drive, so you need to use the motherboard's RAID utility if there is one (Windows sees the two as one drive).

If XP can't see a regular mechanical hard drive, then you have other issues besides RAID. If the computer's very old and the drive very big, the BIOS may not be able to see the drive. Or you just have it hooked up wrong.