Gonna raid 2 x 36gb raptors on P5K

Schnippzle

Schnippzle

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As the title says....however its become apparent that I have to use the external sata port and one of the internal sata ports to get raid to actually work :( Im planning on having both raptors internal and running an esata-> sata cable into my case and to the ratpor to solve the problem of not having an internal RAID controller. Does any1 have any experience with this / whats the perfromance like relative to native internal RAID support? Should I just invest in a RAID controller card or another mobo instead?
 
That doesn't sound right to me at all.

I can't think of any reason why e-sata would require raid. are your e-sata ports on the mothernoard or are they on a separate card.

If it's a separate card then you probably just need to jig around where they cable up to the ports on your motherboard
 
Basically, there are 5 internal sata ports and one external one. Problem is, the raid controller sits on the external port and only works with one of the internal sata ports to support RAID 0 or 1 making the other 4 sata ports only available for single drive use.
 
Schnippzle said:
As the title says....however its become apparent that I have to use the external sata port and one of the internal sata ports to get raid to actually work :( Im planning on having both raptors internal and running an esata-> sata cable into my case and to the ratpor to solve the problem of not having an internal RAID controller. Does any1 have any experience with this / whats the perfromance like relative to native internal RAID support? Should I just invest in a RAID controller card or another mobo instead?
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Sounds like a reasonable solution and there shouldn't be any visible difference in performance.
 
Woohoo, rpstewart I knew I could count on you trawling this part of the forum. Cheers man. Now all I gotta do is source one of those cables as OcUk doesnt have any in atm :( Incidentally, no IT shop in Liverpool (nor any electrical shops stock them) and all the normal electrical appliance shops dont have any in.
 
I've had a bit of a hunt, and you are absolutely right (section 5.4.2 in the manual apparently)

That is the most messed up RAID setup I have ever heard, sounds like they got Escher or Dhali in to design that one.

The performance should be exactly the same as if it was 2 internal ports RAIDed, but I'm not familiar with Jmicrons RAID performance, I've heard that intels ICH9R is far better.

I'm a bit of a neat freak so I'd either buy a new motherboard or an internal RAID card.
 
Yea Iv been thinking about that as well as I dont fancy having any more cables around the back of my rig :p Cant really afford a new mobo atm so thats out of the question, and the only slot available on my mobo is a pci-e 1x slot which is gonna be used up by a new sound card (gfx cooler takes up the other slots). So this I think is gonna have to be the best temporary solution till i can get a new mobo.
 
yeh very poor design well mabaye you should have studied
the motherboard 1st before you bought it
it was the same with there crappy Asus P5W DH Deluxe WiFi
3 intel sata raid and 2 esata

any other motherboard gave you 4 intel sata raid and 4 on the marvell
like my badaxe2 giving a total of 8 sata ports
 
im in the same boat mate, i read the bit about how to get raid 10 times, as i couldnt belive what i was reading. Talk about weird !
 
Yea man. I'v fine-combed the Asus forums not to mention most tech forums available in this universe to see if there is anything that can be done about this apart from re-designing and re-making the motherboard myself. Apparently there isnt and we have to face reality :)
 
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