>>I'm in the process of buying an ASUS board (A7N8X-E-DX) that comes with SATA RAID, once I get it I will check the manual and let you know what it says. I think I'll get it later today. <g>
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>that will be handy for sure. Thanks.

Jim, bad luck. The motherboard doesn't come with a manual for the SATA RAID. And because I don't have any SATA HDs I cant run the utility to check it out. But I am 99% certain that to have what you want, which is a RAID 1+0 you need 4 identical disks.