Jdillinger

All good. I don't care for the write speed. I won't be writing to it that often. But if the read speeds are just as bad, that can be A huge issue.

All good. I don't care for the write speed. I won't be writing to it that often. But if the read speeds are just as bad, that can be A huge issue.

Suggested stripe size for raid 5 was 64k. Guess I can't go back and change it. Does it matter?

And suggestions for read / write speed software test?

Monitoring cpu usage and it's like at 2%. How can diagnose what the issue is? Because transferring 1TB of data has an estimated time of 23hrs.

One thing though. My write speed is like 30Mb/sec. Bought it would be higher? I'm transferring movies from my old hard drive to the raid.

I got everything working today with mobo raid. Not sure what I did differently. In fact didn't do anything differently. It just decided to work today. It seems stable so far. Fingers crossed. Thanks for all your help again.

It's storage for pictures and movies. I just gave a spare Ssd and didn't want it to go to waste.

I'm looking for a card that can use an ssd as cache. Does that help with trying to choose a card for me?

I just want to be able to use the raid 5 as a storage device. What raid card you suggest. After running windows update, it lost the bootmgr. Saying it could not be found. So I was stuck. Tried repairing with windows but didn't work. Idk....ugh.

Very sad now. It worked for a bit. Then it BSOD doing some physical memory dump...I tried re-installing windows 7 again. Got an error saying windows 7 cannot be installed on current system's configuration or something like that. Tried reinstalling win 7 on multiple ssds. Not sure what to do now. Most likely gonna switch back to ACHI mode and try reinstalling windows without raid set up. Need suggestions for raid cards I guess. When I have a raid card, does it act as a separate entity or do i need to switch my mobo mode from ACHI to RAID?

Works!!!! Thanks a million chef

Def gone try that out and let you know. Thanks.

So my current system is set in ACHi mode with windows running on a 240gb ssd. As soon as I switch over to raid mode and set up my raid, after a restart, windows will not boot. Just flashes BOD for a split second and restarts. Same thing happens over and over. So what I tried to do was set up raid. Then install windows on a separate Ssd 120gb. Windows installed fine but it didn't see the raid. Really got me scratching my head. I'll give it another shot after work today. I don't want the operating system to be running on the raid. Any suggestions let me know. Thanks.

@ChineseChef So i finally started putting everything together today. I was able to set up the raid using legacy rom, but then windows wouldn't boot. I don't want to install windows on my raid5. I just would like it to show up as one hard drive. But every time i set up the raid5, my orignal windows installation won't boot. So i have to go delete the raid and switch the sata mode back to ACHI. The other thing i tried was after setting up the raid5, installing windows 7 on spare ssd. I was able to boot into windows, but it didn't see my raid5. Please help. PS. do i need to format the hard drives before i raid them?