C606 on GA-X79S-UP5-WIFI Raid setup

ken1212 · Apr 8, 2013

Hi Guys,

I just ordered my first custom build PC with a GA-X79S-UP5-WIFI board. It comes with an intel C606 chipset with 8 sas/sata ports at 3g. The board also has an additional 4xsata 3g (will be used in raid), and 2xsata 6g (will be used with ssd).

I want to build some additional raids for video editing. My question, can I setup more than one raid setup on the sas ports? Since the ports accept sata can I have one setup as sas and another as sata raid?

I called Gigabyte and left a message a week ago for support but never got a call back, and today I called and kept getting dropped when selecting the support extension, I redialed and selected customer service whom put me on hold to transfer me to support but after about 20 minutes of holding I gave up and hanged. This is my first experience with Gigabyte and it's not very promising.

cin19 · Apr 9, 2013

In theory you can. But in your case, you can't because the GA X79 board does not have enough shadow memory to be able to load two RAID at the same time. Only one or the other. Here is the "what is shadow RAM?" http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/shadow-RAM

ken1212 · Apr 9, 2013

cin19 :

Thanks for the reply and info. I just called Gigabyte and was able to get hold of support, they confirmed since all the ports run by the C606 chipset that I can only do one raid. To do other raids I wold have to buy another raid card. The board has 2x sata 6g ports, 4x sata 3g ports, and 8x SAS/Sata 3g ports.

I was planning on two raid 0 setups, one for media/projects and another for scratch disk/exports. So now I am trying to figure out my set up with one raid. Would this be the best setup for video editing with adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Speed Grade and Photoshop.

SSD on 6g port: OS and adobe products
2TB : 7200rpm other programs, my documents, temp folder, photos etc
Sata 7200rpm 2tb x 2 Raid 0 : Media and Projects
300gb SAS 15k: Adobe Media Cache
600GB SAS 15k: Video Preview drive (Scratch disk Renders, I was planning a raid but now separating video and
audio to speed process)
300GB SAS 15k : Audio Preview Drive (Scratch disk renders)
300GB SAS 15k : Export Drive

Wondering if this is an ideal setup with only one raid 0. I will be backing up my media on an external drive just in case. Also will the SAS 15k drives give a noticeable performance over SATA 7200rpm.

cin19 · Apr 9, 2013

The setup is good.
SAS hard drive is nearly 3X as fast as SATA in theory, because the SAS HD raw disk IOPS (IOs per second) are 294 and SATA HD raw disk IOPS (IOs per second) are 106. But in real world SAS will give you at least between 2-3 times faster.

ken1212 · Apr 10, 2013

cin19 :

I just created a raid 0 with two seagate sata3 7200rpm, my benchmarks using crystaldiskmark show 271 read and 279 write for seq. The drives gave me about 180 to 190 when tested alone with no raid. I was thinking with raid 0, I would double the speed which should be closer to 350! Seems I would have to add a third drive to reach 350.

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