I have a p67A-UD4 board and 3 x 1TB WD drives. 2 of these drives are in raid0 with everything including the OS on it. The other drive has nothing on it.
What I'm wanting to do is add that drive to the existing array, without cleaning everything off. I tried to do it with the XHD utility that came with the board, but no luck. The AUTO option tells me it's not supported, that's with XHD enabled and disabled in bios.
The intel rapid storage utility lets me look at the array and raid setup, as well as the other drive. Going through the manuals tells me that i should be able to do it through this program, by clicking on either the array or volume in the storage view, and then clicking add to the array.
However there is no option that comes up at all that enables me to do anything to the array. The only thing that does come up is the disk data cache option.
So is it possible to add a drive to the array without wiping them and rebuilding from scratch. And if so, how? Does the problem have anything to do with the 2TB limit to a partition with MBR on it with OS ive read about? ( I would be creating a 3TB partition from the raid) I've turned off XHD in the bios also.
Any advice would be great, as the missus is worried after i told her i've just doubled the chance of losing all our data with a raid0
(therefore her photos).
I'd also like to change to RAID5 to combat this, and later change to RAID10 after i get another drive. But for the moment being able to add that drive to the current RAID0 would be good, and then change to RAID5 for the meantime.