GA-P67A-UD7-B3 - RAID0 across all 6 SATA ports

[jhbodle]

Hi,

I have three Intel X25-e SSD drives and will soon be buying two more. I want to put all 5 together in RAID0, which means I will have to use both the 6Gbps ports and the 3Gbps ports (NOT the marvell ports, the Intel ones on the chipset).

When I tried to put two on the 6Gbps ports and one on the 3Gbps port, the Intel RAID utility could only see the drive connected to the 3Gbps controller upon bootup. The two drives on the 6Gbps ports were not available to be selected for the RAID array.

Can I create a RAID0 array across all the ports and if so, how do I do it?

[Aussie Allan]

 This is off your Manual........Chipset:

    2 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors (SATA3_0, SATA3_1) supporting up to 2 SATA 6Gb/s devices
    4 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (SATA2_2~SATA2_5) supporting up to 4 SATA 3Gb/s devices
    Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10
    * When a RAID set is built across the SATA 6Gb/s and SATA 3Gb/s channels, the system performance of the RAID set may vary depending on the devices being connected.
 
  So possible....... but you will have problems I think in configuring......you will also have a 0 raid set with diminishing returns over the ICH10R SATA/chipset with 5 SSDs

  Your best option , bang for buck would be to buy just one more SSD and put the rest towards a HighPoint RocketRaid 640 PCI-Ecard..........these cards are the first full 6Gb/s 4 port card that you can boot off as well......this combination should be cheaper to setup and give you better read and write speeds overall then going down the "Lets saturate the SATAs".......PCI-E you won't come near to saturating.

 Aussie Allan