Do i need astand alone raid card for this?

[SnOop005]

Hey guys, here's the situation. I'm running 2x VR 150gig RAID 0 on Abit AW9D-MAXX i975x onboard raid. This board is on its last strench so I bought a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P which has the ich10r onboard raid controller and also 2 more VR 150gig from a friend for cheap. I plan on setting the drives for 4x RAID 0, my question is will the ich10r be able to handle it or do i really need to spend another 300 bux on a Areca RAID card? Will the performance gain be signifcant?

 

[pjkenned]

Raid 0 = fine for onboard. Only bad thing is that you have a 4x better chance of losing your data than a single drive. May want to think about raid 5.

Great motherboard though!

 

[Computurd]

unless you are going for sequentials above 660 mb/s, which you wont get with that many devices anyway, ich10r will be more than adequate.

 

[garritynet]

Nope. ICH10 is great for onbard RAID 0.

 

[SnOop005]

Thanks for the response guys!

Raid 0 = fine for onboard. Only bad thing is that you have a 4x better chance of losing your data than a single drive. May want to think about raid 5.

Great motherboard though!

Yeah, the risk is high but since this will be my boot drive just though id give it a shot see how it is.


Thanks again!

 

[garritynet]

Instead of using your onboard RAID 5 just have a cheap 600-700Gb drive as a backup drive. That protects you against drive failure and MB failure at the same time while putting a lot less stress on the back-up drive.