Maximum raid configurations

Yella Fella · 5 Jan 2011 at 15:30

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.

twist3d0n3 · 5 Jan 2011 at 15:37

not really any point raiding ssd's tbh, might as well just have one fast one.

you could do what you suggest, but you'd probably be better off with 2x bigger drives than 4 all going.

Yella Fella · 6 Jan 2011 at 09:19

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)?

jamesfreddie · 16 Jan 2011 at 16:06

I would say no it is not possible. Go 1 fast SSD. Raid onboard 2 SSD. Cheap PCI-e card for 2 HDD