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Storage Spaces Question

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  • Hard Drives
  • Windows 8
  • Storage
  • NAS / RAID
  • Formula
Last response: in Windows 8
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October 15, 2014 10:30:46 AM

I'm building a PC with a Formula VII MB, a 128 GB SSD boot drive, and 4, 1 TB HDD's that I want to run in a RAID 10. The Formula VII has a RAID controller, but it does not support JBOD.

I've never used Storage Spaces. Could I first install the OS on the SSD, then connect the other 4 HDD's, and use storage spaces to setup the RAID, and bypass the RAID controller on the MB?

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a b * Windows 8
a b G Storage
October 15, 2014 10:52:48 AM

Storage spaces is not near as realiable as using the built in raid controller on the board.

The board's raid controller supports RAID 10 right out of the box.
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October 15, 2014 10:57:31 AM

It supports RAID 10 yes, but it won't support JBOD, so I need a separate RAID controller card if I want to use a SSD boot drive.
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a b * Windows 8
a b G Storage
October 15, 2014 11:01:43 AM

All motherboards support JBOD.

Now you cant plug a different drive not in the raid to ports on the same controller.
You have 2 different controllers on your motherboard. Plug your RAID10 array into the slots of one controller and SSD/Optical drive into a difrrernt controller's ports.
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