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    X38 and PCI Express x4 compatibility (RAID controllers)

    Thank you for your opinion. I respect you choice, although I'm still inclined to RAID 5. Yes, I know about relatively bad write performance. This is actually the only real disadvantage of RAID 5 for me. But it's overweighted by other advantages, IMHO. BTW, 3ware SATA controllers do support...
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    X38 and PCI Express x4 compatibility (RAID controllers)

    Blazer7: Your comparison is very strange, because you should compare RAIDs with the same available space, not with the same number of disks. :-) And in this case RAID 10 _does_ mean more noise and power consumption, because you need more disks to get the same amount of space as with RAID 5...
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    X38 and PCI Express x4 compatibility (RAID controllers)

    RAID 10 has several disadvantages: - more disk space wasted - more noise - higher power consumption -> even more noise due to cooling An no, it won't give more speed compared to a good RAID 5 controller. Raid 10 gives double transfer rate compared to a single disk. RAID 5 gives...
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    X38 and PCI Express x4 compatibility (RAID controllers)

    I need RAID 5 with currently 4 drives (and an option to add more drives when needed). And most important: it should still work in a new motherboard. I've had bad experience with software RAID 5. Is there any info if the issues have been fixed in X48? In fact, I didn't even see any official...
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    X38 and PCI Express x4 compatibility (RAID controllers)

    P35/X38 have much better overclocking capabilities with Q6600. This is the reason I'm looking for an Intel motherboard. As for extension slots, one x16 for the video card, one x4 for RAID and some x1 slots for future extensions are enough for me. I'm not planning to install other high bandwidth...
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    X38 and PCI Express x4 compatibility (RAID controllers)

    Hi! Does anybody has experience with X38 boards and hardware RAID controllers? In a German forum some guy has reported that his GA-X38-DQ6 did not boot with a 3ware Escalade 9650SE attached. There is also an article on Fudzilla about PCIe problems with X38...