Maximum raid configurations

[Yella Fella]

Alright guys,

I currently have 6 sata ports on my motherboards, IIRC from the top of my head, its an abit ip35 pro board. Is it possible to run 3 raid 0 configurations? I'm thinking of the following...

2 x SSD drives
2 x HD
2 x HD

SSD's for OS and the others for video and photography work.

If possible is it best to do it via the motherboard or use a PCI-E raid card of some sort? Ta.

 

[Yella Fella]

Isn't the point of running them in a raid stripe to have it load data faster? SSD's are fast yes, but having it in a raid will increase its performance surely?

What's wrong with having 4? I'm wanting good read/write performance, I do a lot of extensive photography work with RAW files in Lightroom, and it be nice to have an improved speed during import/export stages, not to mention the previewing within.

Same for videography, with project files running quite big, it be good to have again a better performance.

To stay on point, is it possible to run raid 0 configurations straight up from a motherboard or is it better to use a (say) PCI-E card (is it faster)?