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After reading around (briefly) I noticed that there are issues with TB drives and RAID configurations (seems to be a space issue). I just ordered two Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB drives and plan to RAID 0 them with my onboard controller. I have an Intel P45 chipset with the ICH10R controller onboard. I plan on running a RAID setup with those drives and running my older Samsung Spinpoint 750GB drive as a storage drive (music, movies, etc...). Am I going to run into an issue with this much hard drive space on Windows XP Pro x86 SP3? I just ditched Vista Ultimate x64 AGAIN last week and I'd prefer not to have to reinstall that OS.

Well, unless you have an image file written you're probably going to have to reinstall the OS no matter what you do after you build the RAID volume. You don't say which type of RAID you're doing but I'm assuming it's RAID 0. I've not personally tried it but I wouldn't imagine it working properlly as XP won't read TB volumes without SP2/SP3 being installed. I ran into that problem when attempting to reinstall it on my "media server". It told me my 1TB Seagate drives were only 131gb and contained "Unreadable partitions". Needless to say I paniced until I had Windows completely installed and updated and it began reading the drives just fine.

Reinstalling the OS goes without saying. To answer your question, yes I plan on running a RAID 0 array. I know I'll have to reinstall Windows but I've read where people building RAID setups in x86 Windows setups (XP and Vista) were running into issues. Most of what I read were more than 2 drive RAID arrays but I thought I'd ask anyway. I.E. a 4 or 6 drive RAID 0 array with only TB drives.