X570 Hardware raid controller

[JakubVa]

Hi,

I´m building an AMD x570 based workstation and my client wants to include a raid controller in the system (for storage) - Broadcom MegaRAID SAS 9440-8i 

The compatibility listing on broadcom´s official site is well...underwhelming and outdated.

 

Motherboard - ASUS PRO WS X570-ACE

CPU -  AMD Ryzen 9 3950X

HDD - 8x WD Red Pro 3,5", 4TB (RAID 10)

OS - WIN 10 Pro

 

I need to be sure that this works and therefore I was wondering if anybody has any experience with a similiar setup. Feel free to make some recommendations if it´s not compatible.

Thank you.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Yea it should work fine. I have used lsi cards on my x570 board with no issues. There not officially supported, so support might not fully support you, but it should work.

 

Id probably go software raid here if it was me though, but do want you want, and fewer bigger hdds.

[JakubVa]

13 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yea it should work fine. I have used lsi cards on my x570 board with no issues. There not officially supported, so support might not fully support you, but it should work.

 

Id probably go software raid here if it was me though, but do want you want, and fewer bigger hdds.

Thanks for the feedback! 

I consider myself newbie in raid solutions, familiar more with NAS systems. This software raid would be set-up via the Motherboard or Windows 10 OS? Usually when I hear/google software raid it looks unreliable, but I may be wrong. Thank you 

[Electronics Wizardy]

28 minutes ago, JakubVa said:

Thanks for the feedback! 

I consider myself newbie in raid solutions, familiar more with NAS systems. This software raid would be set-up via the Motherboard or Windows 10 OS? Usually when I hear/google software raid it looks unreliable, but I may be wrong. Thank you 

software raid would be done in the os, so storage spaces in windows 10. Software raid is generally more fleable, about the same speed, and easier to move between system.