Opinion about RAID 10 on x570

CaoBanguela · October 4, 2023

Hi everybody! I have an Asus Crosshair VIII Impact and 2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe XPG S70 1Tb Blade and I'm thinking on doing RAID 10 on them.

I had issues with corrupted disk and lost all my data twice in the last 6 months (and yes, I have backups, but I need to reinstall and restore everything everytime), so I'm thinking on doing this to get a little less headache with formatting PC, installing everything back, restore data,... if something happens.

Would recommend using the AMD RAID enabled on the Asus BIOS and what do you thing about it?

An external controller is not a option, I don't have avaliable PCIe ports and is too expesive for a small problema.

Jarsky · October 4, 2023

You can't RAID10 2 drives...you mean Mirrored Raid (RAID1)?

A mirror would be fine; I just wouldn't use it for anything more advanced like a stripe or a RAID5 etc...

SSDs are very reliable; to have 2 losses in 6 months is pretty insane. I've never had one corrupt. I had an SSD die about 9 years ago which was an old controller which was known for having trouble on the old OCZ drives. Never had an NVMe drive die. Thats really odd to have 2 failures...