Raid Card

[SugarTe]

Hi! 

I'm looking to do raid 1 (aka mirroring) 2 Samsung 500gb (2.5 in) SSDs in Windows 10, and my motherboard does not support it, I was wondering if I could use a RAID card to have this feature. Would using this card work ? 

 

Mobo Link

 

thanks for any and all help!

[SkyHound0202]

The motherboard has native RAID support. You need to enable it in BIOS and then configure it in Option ROM.

Follow this guide to set up.

[SugarTe]

31 minutes ago, SkyHound0202 said:

The motherboard has native RAID support. You need to enable it in BIOS and then configure it in Option ROM.

Follow this guide to set up.

sorry. for some reason i sent the wrong mobo link. This is what i have https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157678

[kirashi]

On 3/30/2019 at 4:59 PM, SugarTe said:

sorry. for some reason i sent the wrong mobo link. This is what i have https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157678

That motherboard ALSO supports RAID - see your motherboards' user manual for details.

https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITXac/#Manual

User Manual - http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/Manual/Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITXac.pdf

RAID Instructions - http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/Manual/RAID/Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITXac/English.pdf

[SugarTe]

On 3/31/2019 at 7:36 PM, kirashi said:

That motherboard ALSO supports RAID - see your motherboards' user manual for details.

https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITXac/#Manual

User Manual - http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/Manual/Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITXac.pdf

RAID Instructions - http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/Manual/RAID/Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITXac/English.pdf

Newegg must like change their links or something, really sorry, This is the mobo https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813157678

 

ASRock H110M-ITX LGA 1151 Intel H110 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard

[kirashi]

8 hours ago, SugarTe said:

Newegg must like change their links or something, really sorry, This is the mobo https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813157678

 

ASRock H110M-ITX LGA 1151 Intel H110 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard

https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813157650 still links to the ASROCK Z170 board....

 

Anywho, the ASROCK H110M-ITX board doesn't mention RAID anywhere on the product page, nor does it mention it inside the PDF manual, so it most likely doesn't support RAID on the board itself. https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H110M-ITX/#Specification

 

You certainly could use a PCIe RAID card, but I personally would recommend using one SSD as your boot drive, then connecting 2 SSD's using drive pooling software such as DrivePool from StableBit for your storage array. This allows you to nuke Windows should it become corrupt or broken from a Windows update without impacting your data, which would be protected by the mirrored DrivePool you'd have setup for data storage via drive pooling software.

[TheDelphiDude]

On 3/30/2019 at 11:53 PM, SugarTe said:

Would using this card work ? 

If you want hardware RAID? No. I'd recommend something supporting RAID in hardware, ie, a card with a BIOS. The card you linked to is little more than a SATA controller.

Also, is there a particular reason you want to run SSDs in RAID 1? If it's for minimizing downtime (remember, RAID is not a backup) and performance isn't that important I'd recommend getting some NAS HDDs such as the WD Red, as the price per GB is significantly lower.