Creating Raid 0 arrays - Combination of Onboard Sata + pcie Sata controller

[itzmactruck]

Fellow ROGers:
I've recently found out that i can only run a bootable raid array on 2 of my 4 onboard sata 6gb ports as the other 2 are Asmedia....uber gay.

Im just wondering whether I can create a raid 0 array with (4) SSD's using a combination of 2 connnected to Sata 6gb ports
on my MB and the other 2 connected to sata 6gb ports on a pcie sata card.

Will my system pretend that the ports on the pcie sata card are part of the board and allow me to create and array with the other 2 drives
connected to MB sata 6gb ports?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Mac.

SPECS:

ASUS R4E MB
I7 3930K @ 4.4GHZ
64GB DDR3 1600
WIN7 PRO X64
(2) GTX680

[Praz]

Hello

This can only be done as an operating system created array. However, configured like this the array will not be bootable.

[itzmactruck]

brutal. So essentially the only way to create a bootable array with (4) ssd's would be to find a motherboard with (4) RSTe supported sata ports?

[itzmactruck]

Hey Praz, will i be able to boot if i created an array with all 4 ssds running off the pcie sata card? Please let me know.

[Praz]

itzmactruck wrote:
Hey Praz, will i be able to boot if i created an array with all 4 ssds running off the pcie sata card? Please let me know.

Hello

Only if the PCIe SATA card allows it.

[itzmactruck]

Cool Thanks for your help!

[itzmactruck]

Brutal. So essentially the only way to create a bootable array with (4) ssd's would be to find a motherboard with (4) RSTe supported sata ports?

[Praz]

Hello

You're welcome. 🙂

[Korth]

On the Asus R4E:
- the X79 chipset provides two red SATA6Gbps ports and four black SATA3Gbps ports, which all support RAID(0,1,5,10).
- the ASMedia chipset adds two red SATA6Gbps ports and two red eSATA6Gbps ports, which all support AHCI only.

At most you could make a bootable 2xSATA6 RAID, a bootable 4xSATA3 RAID, and (on the ASMedia ports) a nonbootable 2xSATA6 software RAID. PCIe-based storage devices can only be configured within nonbootable software RAIDs, unless they happen to interface directly into the X79 SATA ports.