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In theory I suppose it's possible using 5 of the 6 Intel SATA ports.

Not a good idea though. 5 times the chance of losing all your data especially as you will have to use the potentially faulty SATA3 ports.

And how would you even be able to back up 5TB of data?

I presume you would have a separate boot drive as I'm not sure you can boot from a 5TB partition.
 
Surveyor said:
In theory I suppose it's possible using 5 of the 6 Intel SATA ports.

Not a good idea though. 5 times the chance of losing all your data especially as you will have to use the potentially faulty SATA3 ports.

And how would you even be able to back up 5TB of data?

I presume you would have a separate boot drive as I'm not sure you can boot from a 5TB partition.
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Yes I have a SSD for boot drive.

I have a external hdd for backing up important data
 
matt_griff said:
Yes I have a SSD for boot drive.

I have a external hdd for backing up important data
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You know the risks so whether or not to go ahead is up to you.

If you're planning on fillling up 5TB then you'll never be able to back it all up onto an external drive.

An even if you only back up 1 or 2TB you're going to have to allow several hours a day to back up the data. And you'll need to back up daily because if 1 of your 5 drives fails you've lost the lot.

I would also check if you can use all of the Intel SATA ports to creat a single RAID volume. The examples I've seen show an array created using 4 disks on the SATA3 ports but not 5 or 6 disks adding in the SATA6 ports.

I have 4 1TB Samsung F3's in a RAID10 array on an MSI P67A-GD65. This gives me 2TB of storage, increased speeds and redundancy.

I'm backing this up daily until I get a revision B3 board when I'll back up once or twice a week as I normally do.
 
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