GA-880GA-UD3H and RAID10

[KEP]

Hi Folks --

Okay, back again with an entirely new thought.  Newegg just put the Samsung F3 HD103SJ back on sale, so I'm thinking maybe what I ought to do is just buy two more, and setup a RAID 10 array of four of those for 2TB total.  (And just toss the idea about a separate boot drive raised in the last thread.)

Is anyone running RAID 10 on this motherboard?  Any reason to think it'll be problematic?

Thanks...

[Dark Mantis]

The only problem that I can forsee is that maybe it doesn't support RAID10. Have you checked to see?

[KEP]

Well, I did look in the manual (which says it does), but other than that, uh...   

Reason I asked was that asking before about combining RAID0 with RAID1 prompted a number of unexpected responses that went a bit beyond what the manual implied.

[Dark Mantis]

Yes according to the spec sheet it does in fact support RAID10 I have just checked.  Do you have a particular reason for wanting to run a RAID array? It's just they can be a lot more trouble to setup and maintain.

[KEP]

Do you have a particular reason for wanting to run a RAID array? It's just they can be a lot more trouble to setup and maintain.

Well, the reason in particular is I'm like most folks are with backups, I suppose.

RAID0 is appealing in that regard.  But the perf boost of RAID1 is also appealing. 

Seems like combining the two could be rather ideal.  I'm just a little leery of allowing a stripe problem to take me down. 

[Dark Mantis]

Just want to point out that you've got it the wrong way round but apart from that it does make sense. I think that you may find that once you have set it all up and the novelty wears off you might find it a bit of a chore if it fails. The theory of RAID is great but now with the speed of SSDs and the size and reliability of modern hard drives it doesn't have quite the same appeal.

[KEP]

Just want to point out that you've got it the wrong way round but apart from that it does make sense. I think that you may find that once you have set it all up and the novelty wears off you might find it a bit of a chore if it fails. The theory of RAID is great but now with the speed of SSDs and the size and reliability of modern hard drives it doesn't have quite the same appeal.

Backwards: D'oh!  I do that way too often.

Novelty: That may be the bottom line.  If I have a couple of RAID1 arrays (and by that, I mean mirrored drives <g>), that's almost certainly going to give the most long-term peace of mind.  I've been doing that with work machines for years and years, and it's worked out very well. 

Thanks...

[Dark Mantis]

No problem. It's just you tend to see a lot of people following the latest trend or fashion without any real reason for doing it and that's often a recipe for disaster.