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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: Savino on January 09, 2010, 12:46:47 pm

Title: Giagbyte x58a-ud7 raid help !
Post by: Savino on January 09, 2010, 12:46:47 pm

I need advice on my new rig, what I want to do is to use two hdd , create one volume , but which port I should use, after that is done will also install 3 additional indipendedent hdd for storage not part of the raid / volume.
thanks in advance. ???

Title: Re: Giagbyte x58a-ud7 raid help !
Post by: techno2k8 on January 17, 2010, 02:56:12 pm

i think mine and your board is almost the same i have the ex58 extreme and i used the white sata port's and then had to go in to the smart backup part of the bios in the intergrated prephirals section.

i have 4 white port's and just used the top 2

Title: Re: Giagbyte x58a-ud7 raid help !
Post by: supershanks on January 21, 2010, 09:34:02 pm

I'd personally go with Matrix raid (http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/matrixstorage_sb.htm) with 2 drives. with 2 slices the outer sli raid0 for your OS the larger slice raid5 for your data etc., I'd use the 3rd, though in fairness i;d probably get a 4th for backup images using something like acronis true image.
See this post for more info and links Mobo Raid (http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/hardware/15091-mobo-raid.html#post44364)