Hey guys, fairly new to this raid stuff. I know the basics but am wondering what specifically would happen if i made a raid 5 array (for storage) from 3 or 4 2TB drives using the above mobo and then say the boot drive fails? Will the raid array be accessible after installing a new os on a new drive and installing the necessary drivers?
Raid 5 - Asrock Extreme4 Gen3
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Yup, if you have a seperate boot drive and it fails, a reinstall would get you access to your raid again. It's generally VERY sensible once you have this setup to seperate boot and raid drive which is exactly what you are doing so good work 
The raid is presented to the OS as a single/partitioned drive by the raid bios on the mainboard and drivers for the board so nothing in the OS should really mess too much with the structure of the raid (not messed with the intel setup to know how much you can change in windows but I guess it's a fair amount tbh so the above statement assumes you wouldn't go messing in the storage controller application and screw things up
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I might have to take a look at what the onboard can do VS my perc as the perc starting to get a little long in the tooth (pretty sure it can keep up with these young 'uns tho).
The raid is presented to the OS as a single/partitioned drive by the raid bios on the mainboard and drivers for the board so nothing in the OS should really mess too much with the structure of the raid (not messed with the intel setup to know how much you can change in windows but I guess it's a fair amount tbh so the above statement assumes you wouldn't go messing in the storage controller application and screw things up
)I might have to take a look at what the onboard can do VS my perc as the perc starting to get a little long in the tooth (pretty sure it can keep up with these young 'uns tho).
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I am thinking of getting the same board and would like a RAID 5 setup as well (4 x 3TB drives). Would you recommend a separate RAID card or using the motherboard's onboard controller?