Best Z68 motherboard

[zoks]

What is the best Z68 gigabyte motherboard?

Can I do next, must be SATA3 connection only for all:
1. 2 x SSD in RAID for boot-software
2. 2 x 2TB HDD in RAID
3. 2 x 3TB HDD in RAID
or remove #3 and use 4x SSD in RAID ?

Can this be achieved with Gigabyte motherboard ?

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome.

I don't think that you would be able to run three different seperate RAID arrays off the one board, so I would suggest trying your last option instead.

Have you thought about using a Revodrive X2 instead of the two SSDs RAIDed together. It would give you more bandwidth than the SSDs would be able to have available as it runs on the PCIE bus. Depending on the size of the drive you would be looking at roughly 700MBs read and write and 200K IOPS which is quite nippy! It is also bootable so you can use it as your primary drive.

As for which is the best motherboard model I really wouldn't like to say as it depends on so many things.

[zoks]

I didn't know Revodrive was bootable, nice, thanks, good idea there.
I want to have best connections for all devices connected so they must have full speeds available throughout...

When I look at Giga website and choose motherboards they are never "aligned" like lowest to highest quality... I'm not sure but I think GA-Z68X-UD7-B3 is the best of Z68 and its positioned in the center of that list...
let me know if there is better one in Z68 line.

Thanks!

[Dark Mantis]

As a general rule the boards rise in spec as the numbers rise. ie UD3, UD4, UD5, UD7 etc obviously there are some variations to this but in most cases it works. The GA-Z68X-UD7 is a top of the range board and will have more ports, slots etc than most of the others. That is not to say that it will have everything though so do make sure that you read the spec list before purchase.