Slot yes (only using one video card
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), cash resources no. Sadly I had to push the cash hard to get the SSDs sorted out, almost nothing left for a decent RAID card like that, although it's the right kind of choice. The issue is that Z68 has 6 SATA ports, the new twin SSDs will take up 2 ports leaving 4 ports for a the 2 mirrored pairs - but I need to slap SSD cache on one of them as well. So I really need 7 RST ports = problem :-( I'm wondering if there is a way to use any of the mirrored SATA SSDs to achieve that within RST, or else the cheapest way or some workaround.
Possible solutions I've thought about include a decent HW raid card (although not all support using an attached SSD as cache, and some use custom disk layouts even in RAID1 which means the disk isn't portable to other manufacturer's SATA hardware so I'm pretty cautious), moving just one mirrorred pair to a card and using a freed-up slot for onboard SSD caching, and perhaps long term getting a newer platform with the extra facilities needed.
Like I commented, I'm not going to use anything except RAID1, nor am I using RAID1 for magical data saving powers it doesn't have
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I have periodic backups in place for other kinds of issue. This is about only 2 things, speeding up one mirrored pair with SSD caching, on a system that has RST but only 6 ports and needs to handle 3 mirrored pairs.. while allowing for my lack of ready cash for a good RAID card ...... which probably means either RST/config workarounds that aren't perfect but might do the job, or extremely cheap and limited feature but halfway decent ultra-cheap RAID cards (contradiction?) that aren't complete crap. I'm interested in ideas on these as I don't know enough to choose well within my very tight limits.