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EX-58 Extreme 3 HDD's Raid 0 Why?

EX-58 Extreme 3 HDD's Raid 0 Why?
« on: November 27, 2010, 01:17:11 am »
In the motherboard manual it says that Raid 0 can have 2 or more drives as long as it's an even number of drives. So can someone tell me why, what is the reason for that statement. I have 3 drives in raid 0 and they seem to work fine. Do 3 drives somehow give sub par performance, I can't find any information about why only 3 drives and searching the internet as far as I can tell only Gigabyte has this limitation with Raid 0 and only even number of drives. Can someone please explain to me why.

Quoted from the manual "A RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration requires at least two hard drives. If more than two hard
drives are to be used, the total number of hard drives must be an even number."

Fatman

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Re: EX-58 Extreme 3 HDD's Raid 0 Why?
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2010, 03:48:53 am »
You need 2 or more HDD's for raid 0. What you need is to have the drives of the same capacity!

Re: EX-58 Extreme 3 HDD's Raid 0 Why?
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2010, 02:01:09 pm »
Exactly, don't worry about it. Just a funky translation!

Re: EX-58 Extreme 3 HDD's Raid 0 Why?
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2010, 05:50:15 pm »
Alrighty!! That is what I had hoped, thanks!