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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: Devran on September 08, 2010, 12:29:02 pm

Title: Raiding with GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD9
Post by: Devran on September 08, 2010, 12:29:02 pm

Hi

I have the following

Motherboard:
 GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD9

SSD for the Operating System:
 OCZ Vertex 2 E (240GB)

Hard Disks:
 2x 600GB Western Digital VelociRaptors (6GB/s)
 2x 2TB Western Digital Caviar Blacks

I want to RAID0 the velociraptors for performance
and RAID1 the RE4s for reliability. My OS is installed on my SSD and I'm not going to touch it.

is that possible? I mean raiding the secondary drives without adding anything. Does the motherboard provide everything necessary for it?

Thanks in advance

specifications of the motherboard can be found under this link (http://"http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3434#sp")

Title: Re: Raiding with GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD9
Post by: Dark Mantis on September 08, 2010, 01:32:18 pm

I don't see a problem with what you want to do as long as certain restraints are met.  I would suggest to run your SSD for booting off the SATA3 Marvell ports and all the rest run form your Intel ICH120R ports. You will obviously have to set up the BIOS to RAID for these ports and for the best performance(although not necessarily best stability) the SATA3 ports to AHCI. The drivers needed should all be avilable from the motherboard disk, if not you can download the latest Intel drivers for the RAID setup. In the back of your manual there is a walkthrough of setting up a RAID array. Good luck.