1st Partition RAID-0, 2nd Partition RAID-1

Okay, why didn't I know about this until today?



The A:\ is not only shortstroked, but "striped" being the software RAID-0 equivalent. Crystal mark gives me like 230MB/sec sequentials for read and write.

The L:\ and M:\ drives are just personal, work, multimedia data that's on a software RAID-1.

I discovered this by accident. I totally thought I'd be able to hardware RAID 10 my Hitachi 3TB drives x 2 on my new mobo. Then, I find out that Intel doesn't want to recognize them in the BIOS. Low and behold, Disk Management lets me separate partitions to different kinds of RAID. Now, it's still not RAID 10, but it's almost the same thing. Plus, it's a bit more flexible than hardware RAID. I know this is desktop, but the questions are laptop related:

Is this common knowledge? Also, is it possible to do this on a boot partition? I've got a hardware RAID 0 with SSDs right now, so I am unable to test this. But, it seems like if it's possible, dual Momentus XTs would be absolutely amazing in a laptop. You'd get 4 levels of disk speed:

1. RAM
2. SLC nand
3. RAID-0 short stroke
4. 7200rpm standard

It's like Z68, but essentially 500GB to 1TB with no bottlenecks. You'd have the 4GB x 2 SLC in addition to the RAM. Plus the short stroke partition for games, photo and video editing. Speed, huge storage, good scaling for under $200. No need for this mSata business. Thoughts?