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I am planning a new build that will use a pair of 840 EVO's in raid 0 (dont hate me, but I already have one and would like more storage) as well as two HDD's in raid 1.

 

I realized I have never used a system with two raid array's in it. Can you run both raid array's off of the Intel controller or do you need to put one of the array's on the onboard 3rd party controller?

 

Thanks in advance.

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I am planning a new build that will use a pair of 840 EVO's in raid 0 (dont hate me, but I already have one and would like more storage) as well as two HDD's in raid 1.

 

I realized I have never used a system with two raid array's in it. Can you run both raid array's off of the Intel controller or do you need to put one of the array's on the onboard 3rd party controller?

 

Thanks in advance.

I would just stick with software RAID personally for the HDDs in RAID 1. Hardware RAID complicates things if bad things happen (the motherboard dies, the controller dies, etc) and doesn't give many positives. It's fine since it's basically required for the OS on the two SSDs (I assume), but I wouldn't put the HDDs on it. 

Regardless, I'm not sure you can put two different RAIDs on the built-in controller on motherboards. Haven't messed with it enough.

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I would just stick with software RAID personally for the HDDs in RAID 1. Hardware RAID complicates things if bad things happen (the motherboard dies, the controller dies, etc) and doesn't give many positives. It's fine since it's basically required for the OS on the two SSDs (I assume), but I wouldn't put the HDDs on it. 

Regardless, I'm not sure you can put two different RAIDs on the built-in controller on motherboards. Haven't messed with it enough.

 

I may not have explained very well. I am not planning on using any raid card or hardware raid solutions. I am simply talking about the motherboard supported SATA III ports. On the Maximus VII Gene there are 8 SATA III ports, 6 of which are intel controlled from the Z97 chipset and 2 are third party. 

 

What I am asking is if I can run two different raid array's (Raid 0 and Raid 1) on the 6 z97 controlled SATA III ports? 

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I may not have explained very well. I am not planning on using any raid card or hardware raid solutions. I am simply talking about the motherboard supported SATA III ports. On the Maximus VII Gene there are 8 SATA III ports, 6 of which are intel controlled from the Z97 chipset and 2 are third party. 

 

What I am asking is if I can run two different raid array's (Raid 0 and Raid 1) on the 6 z97 controlled SATA III ports? 

Yes, you can. 

I thought you meant going into the BIOS and setting up the RAIDs from there. My bad.

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Yes, you can. 

I thought you meant going into the BIOS and setting up the RAIDs from there. My bad.

 

Thanks. Much appreciated.

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I don't see any reason to run RAID 0 on two SSD's. Seems illogical. Might as well run the two seperately.

Plus, if you already have data on your SSD, you will need to wipe it when creating a RAID 0 setup. If you don't set it up as RAID 0, you can just pop the second SSD in and use it right away.

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