Help
cancel
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Rampage III Extreme SSD for OS and RAID0 for mechanical drives

Enthusiast
Level 7

‎06-21-2012 03:04 PM - last edited on ‎03-06-2024 08:30 PM by Community Admin

I would like to place the Windows 7 OS on a single 256GB SATA 3 SSD in AHCI mode and configure 4 mechanical hard drives (SATA 3) in a striped array (separate from the OS SSD). I tried to search out relevant posts on the topic and was not successful. I am wondering what the best way to go about this and get the best speeds from the devices. Any help will be appreciated.
ASUS LGA 1366 - Intel X58 - ROG - Rampage III Extreme,
Intel Core i7-990X Extreme Edition Processor 3.46 GHz Socket LGA1366,
Corsair Hydro Series H70 Core Liquid CPU Cooler,
Corsair Pro Series Gold 1200-Watt Power Supply,
ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7970, Corsair Memory Dominator GT 12 GB SDRAM,
Crucial 256 GB m4 SSD for OS, 4 Seagate Barracuda 2 TB SATA 6 GB/s,
LG Electronics 14x Internal Blu-Ray Rewriter,
Microsoft Windows 7 Pro 64bit, Cooler Master HAF X Full Tower
Labels:
0 Kudos
6,969 Views
3 REPLIES 3

Zka17
Level 16

‎06-22-2012 06:29 AM

Hey Enthusiast, if you want the full speed from your HDDs (6 GB/s), you'll need to use a RAID card in PCIe slot... Only on the Marvell connectors (2) you have SATA III... The rest, suitable for RAID array are only SATA II...
0 Kudos

Enthusiast
Level 7
In response to Zka17

‎06-22-2012 10:35 AM

Thanks for the information.

So, I can put the OS SSD on the internal SATA 3 and put the 4 RAID drives on the PCI card? Can you suggest a PCI card?
ASUS LGA 1366 - Intel X58 - ROG - Rampage III Extreme,
Intel Core i7-990X Extreme Edition Processor 3.46 GHz Socket LGA1366,
Corsair Hydro Series H70 Core Liquid CPU Cooler,
Corsair Pro Series Gold 1200-Watt Power Supply,
ASUS AMD Radeon HD 7970, Corsair Memory Dominator GT 12 GB SDRAM,
Crucial 256 GB m4 SSD for OS, 4 Seagate Barracuda 2 TB SATA 6 GB/s,
LG Electronics 14x Internal Blu-Ray Rewriter,
Microsoft Windows 7 Pro 64bit, Cooler Master HAF X Full Tower
0 Kudos

Zka17
Level 16

‎06-22-2012 05:28 PM

I have one of this: LSI MegaRaid SATA/SAS 9260-4i
0 Kudos