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Hi Tom's People,
Just like the title asks . . . I want to run a fairly common setup as efficiently as possible; namely an SSD containing my OS and programs with two HDDs in RAID1 for media and other mass storage.
Can my motherboard (Asus Rampage IV Gene) support an SSD in AHCI and a pair of HDDs in RAID1? Here are the drives I'll be using if that helps:
SSD: 1x Samsung 840 EVO 750 GB
HDD: 2x Seagate Constellation ES.3 ST4000NM0033 4TB
I'd really appreciate help from those of you who have experience with running a single SDD and 2 HDDs in a RAID1 configuration on a single system. The only thing I've found online about this topic was from a similar thread on Tom's but for a different motherboard (click for link). Perhaps it's possible to adapt a solution like the one selected in that thread but for my motherboard? Not sure.
The reason I ask is because I like that AHCI allows my SSD to control itself internally while retaining trim capability. At the same time, I also need RAID1 for increased fault tolerance.
Can I make both work together? Maybe using different controllers on my motherboard will help. For instance, what about if I use the x79's native SATA 6.0 Gbps controller plugs for the SDD and also ASUS's 3 Gbps controller plugs for the HDDs? I'd imagine the motherboard's SATA setting would be set to RAID either way, but maybe it's possible to configure this with AHCI enabled.
Also, I am not 100% set on any particular mode for my SSD (e.g. AHCI), so suggest away if RAID and AHCI aren't the only two options for my scenario. I just want to retain my SSD's very good internal controls and be sure that trim will continue to work, if at all possible, while running my HDDs in RAID1.
Specific information on this has been hard to find, so please chime in if you've set up something like this before.
Thanks!
P.S. I'm reposting this here because it seems like a motherboard question, and no one answered in the Storage forum. Hope you motherboard experts can help!
Just like the title asks . . . I want to run a fairly common setup as efficiently as possible; namely an SSD containing my OS and programs with two HDDs in RAID1 for media and other mass storage.
Can my motherboard (Asus Rampage IV Gene) support an SSD in AHCI and a pair of HDDs in RAID1? Here are the drives I'll be using if that helps:
SSD: 1x Samsung 840 EVO 750 GB
HDD: 2x Seagate Constellation ES.3 ST4000NM0033 4TB
I'd really appreciate help from those of you who have experience with running a single SDD and 2 HDDs in a RAID1 configuration on a single system. The only thing I've found online about this topic was from a similar thread on Tom's but for a different motherboard (click for link). Perhaps it's possible to adapt a solution like the one selected in that thread but for my motherboard? Not sure.
The reason I ask is because I like that AHCI allows my SSD to control itself internally while retaining trim capability. At the same time, I also need RAID1 for increased fault tolerance.
Can I make both work together? Maybe using different controllers on my motherboard will help. For instance, what about if I use the x79's native SATA 6.0 Gbps controller plugs for the SDD and also ASUS's 3 Gbps controller plugs for the HDDs? I'd imagine the motherboard's SATA setting would be set to RAID either way, but maybe it's possible to configure this with AHCI enabled.
Also, I am not 100% set on any particular mode for my SSD (e.g. AHCI), so suggest away if RAID and AHCI aren't the only two options for my scenario. I just want to retain my SSD's very good internal controls and be sure that trim will continue to work, if at all possible, while running my HDDs in RAID1.
Specific information on this has been hard to find, so please chime in if you've set up something like this before.
Thanks!
P.S. I'm reposting this here because it seems like a motherboard question, and no one answered in the Storage forum. Hope you motherboard experts can help!
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