Asus P6X58D-E and Raid 1

[Vir]

Hey there,

at the moment on a Asus P6X58D-E, got two Samsung F3 1TB's on it in Raid-1.

Today I went into the bios and I saw in the utilities or tools section EZBackup feature, my HD was set to EZBackup, I can also choose Normal and Speed.

Now I've done some reading and I think it's configured like this:
EZBackup = Raid 1
Normal = AHCI Normal
Speed = Raid 0?

I've never touched these settings myself so I think after I went and created the raid-1 array via the NEC controller bios it set itself to EZBackup?
I've got the NEC SATA6 drivers installed in Win7 x64

Is this configuration ok or should I do something else for raid 1, it's not doing a double raid 1 or something or is it?

 

[Vir]

This. I found my drives performance on the Marvel chipset in raid was appauling compared to the Intel raid.

Even sadder when I discovered that moving the drives to the Intel chipset meant I had to make a new array and reintall my windows again.

It may well be the design of the Marvel chipset or poor early drivers but I'm stay away from it for now.

Guys thanks for the reply and sorry for my late reply.

Ok, I didn't know that. So at this moment I have 2x F3 1TB on the NEC controller lol.

I'm gonna be buying a C300 128GB soon I think or the new Intel SSD's. As they are SATA6 it's probably best to do this configuration?

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NEC SATA6 Controller
Port 0: C300 128GB SATA6
port 1: N/A

Intel ICH10R:
Port 2: F3 1TB
Port 3: F3 1TB
Port 4: N/A
Port 5: N/A

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That would indeed mean I have to make a new raid and format the whole drives I guess... damniiiiiiiiit

But is it OK to put the C300 SATA6 on the NEC controller or is that also even slower then Intel ICH10R with SATA3?

 

[Vir]

I would still expect to see the ICH10R performing better than the marvel controller thats on there. Nothing to stop you just running one of the various SSD benchmark programs when you get your C300 and just compare the speeds before you get around to installing OS/software/etc on it.
The other annoying thing about the marvel controller on the board is that it adds another 5-10seconds onto your boot time when it's enabled in bios.

I don't really care about boot speed at all, not important for me. I might actually benchmark it but I'll have to see if I think it's worth it as I currently have both F3's on the two ports :S

I can almost not imagine that the NEC SATA6 with C300 is slower then the intel ICH10R @ SATA3 with C300 but we'll see I guess

Thanks for replying

 

[Vir]

Actually a single ssd sata 3 drive is actually faster on the marvel controller than running on sata 2 intel controller so your set up will be fine and the best way.

I was as mad as hell having to re-make my array swapping the raid drives over.

Oh, and one last thing, use the windows MS drivers for your marvel sata 3 and not the marvel ones. The marvel ones don't support TRIM yet.

That's what I had to do the last time after swapping motherboard... lost all my data on raid-1 lol... that was so stupid....

Anyway I will have to reinstall everything but at least now I know. I have just two F3's in raid-1 with Win7 + all data on them. So if I get the C300 I'll have to backup all data from the F3's to an external HD, after that I'll put the C300 on the NEC SATA6 controller and the SAMSUNG F3's on the Intel controller in Raid-1. Then install Win 7 on SSD and use the standard drivers. And copy everything back on the Raid-1 from the external hard drives.