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I'm going to re-install Windows soon, mainly because it's getting corrupt. Windows Explorer crashes regularly and it's become slow overall. In the meantime I have acquired new disks and want to know what my best options are to re-arrange these.
Currently my SATA-Controller is set to AHCI and I've configured some mirrored disks through Windows Disk Manager.
First, let me explain my current disk setup
1 x 240GB SSD (Boot drive)
2 x 1TB HDD (Mirrored - Important data)
2 x 3TB HDD (Spanned volume - Media files, movies, series, etc. - Also shared in network)
1 x 500GB HDD (Simple back-ups and temporary files)
I have an Asus Sabertooth Z77 as motherboard, which has 4 SATA-II ports and 2 SATA-III ports on the Intel chipset and 2 SATA-III ports on the ASmedia controller. I'm not entirely sure how this works, but I guess I am able to use ports of both controllers, supporting up to 8 HDD's
(Don't worry, my PSU will be able to manage it)
I recently got a bunch of 2TB HDD's to use or sell. So I can use my current disks + as much 2TB disks I can hold in my system.
Which would lead to get me this setup:
- Set SATA-Controller to RAID
1 x 240GB SSD (Boot drive)
2 x 2TB HDD (Mirrored/RAID1 - important data)
2 x 3TB HDD + 3 x 2TB HDD (Spanned volume/JBOD as 1 volume - Media files - Shared)
Now the question part:
- Can I configure different RAID volumes (RAID1 + JBOD volumes) on 1 controller when set to RAID?
- Can I actually use all ports, even if it's a different controller (Intel Z77 and ASmedia)?
- What is the best work-order if I want to keep my current media files (4TB) and my important data (530GB)? My boot-drive doesn't contain important data.
Thanks for reading, I'm curious what you guys can make from this
Currently my SATA-Controller is set to AHCI and I've configured some mirrored disks through Windows Disk Manager.
First, let me explain my current disk setup
1 x 240GB SSD (Boot drive)
2 x 1TB HDD (Mirrored - Important data)
2 x 3TB HDD (Spanned volume - Media files, movies, series, etc. - Also shared in network)
1 x 500GB HDD (Simple back-ups and temporary files)
I have an Asus Sabertooth Z77 as motherboard, which has 4 SATA-II ports and 2 SATA-III ports on the Intel chipset and 2 SATA-III ports on the ASmedia controller. I'm not entirely sure how this works, but I guess I am able to use ports of both controllers, supporting up to 8 HDD's
(Don't worry, my PSU will be able to manage it)
I recently got a bunch of 2TB HDD's to use or sell. So I can use my current disks + as much 2TB disks I can hold in my system.
Which would lead to get me this setup:
- Set SATA-Controller to RAID
1 x 240GB SSD (Boot drive)
2 x 2TB HDD (Mirrored/RAID1 - important data)
2 x 3TB HDD + 3 x 2TB HDD (Spanned volume/JBOD as 1 volume - Media files - Shared)
Now the question part:
- Can I configure different RAID volumes (RAID1 + JBOD volumes) on 1 controller when set to RAID?
- Can I actually use all ports, even if it's a different controller (Intel Z77 and ASmedia)?
- What is the best work-order if I want to keep my current media files (4TB) and my important data (530GB)? My boot-drive doesn't contain important data.
Thanks for reading, I'm curious what you guys can make from this
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