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(SOLVED) Motherboard Hardware RAID
Hey all, bit new here, and I have a few burning questions regarding how I want to set up my build. And I apologize for the length of this, everything about CustoMacs is really hard to wrap my head around all at once. @.@
I'm planning on building a rig similar to http://www.tonymacx86.com/golden-bu...d5h-i7-3770k-gigabyte-geforce-gtx-660-ti.html and the motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128545 says, under the SATA RAID specs, "2 x SATA 6Gb/s (SATA3 0/SATA3 1) and 4 x SATA 3Gb/s (SATA2 2~5) Support for RAID 0, 1, 5, 10"
So what I want to do is create a hardware RAID 0 array using two SSDs. I feel I need to utilize hardware RAID, since I want to triple-boot from these drives (Windows, Mac, and Linux), and software RAID won't work across all three operating systems seamlessly (unless somebody could correct me). The motherboard says it supports hardware RAID, however, I've never done a hardware RAID setup before.
EDIT 2: So the motherboard only supports hardware-assisted software RAID, which doesn't work properly for OS X. The Highpoint RocketRAID 2720SGL was suggested twice, but after reading that it adds extra time to boot, (nitpicky, I know), I may want to think more about it. Any other suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Hey all, bit new here, and I have a few burning questions regarding how I want to set up my build. And I apologize for the length of this, everything about CustoMacs is really hard to wrap my head around all at once. @.@
I'm planning on building a rig similar to http://www.tonymacx86.com/golden-bu...d5h-i7-3770k-gigabyte-geforce-gtx-660-ti.html and the motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128545 says, under the SATA RAID specs, "2 x SATA 6Gb/s (SATA3 0/SATA3 1) and 4 x SATA 3Gb/s (SATA2 2~5) Support for RAID 0, 1, 5, 10"
So what I want to do is create a hardware RAID 0 array using two SSDs. I feel I need to utilize hardware RAID, since I want to triple-boot from these drives (Windows, Mac, and Linux), and software RAID won't work across all three operating systems seamlessly (unless somebody could correct me). The motherboard says it supports hardware RAID, however, I've never done a hardware RAID setup before.
EDIT 2: So the motherboard only supports hardware-assisted software RAID, which doesn't work properly for OS X. The Highpoint RocketRAID 2720SGL was suggested twice, but after reading that it adds extra time to boot, (nitpicky, I know), I may want to think more about it. Any other suggestions would be very much appreciated.