Raid support confusion

Brad Neil2 · Apr 18, 2015

Yahoo answers tell me that RAID support is the ability to set up multiple drives in a raid array.
What's that? The guy didn't answer that.

My MOBO that I have chosen supports RAID and I'm planning to get a standard Seagate barracuda 1TB 7200RPM HDD alongside a Samsung 840 EVO SSD. If my MOBO doesn't support RAID would this essentially mean that I couldn't have the combo of an HDD and SSD configuration?

qazzi · Apr 18, 2015

i think your confuse. Raid setup is like this 4pcs 1TB seagate. then you set them as a RAID Array, what your doing is normal setup. but i do suggest make the SSD your boot drive then the regular HDD as a data storage.

pauls3743 · Apr 18, 2015

You're using a mechanical hard drive and an SSD, I would just use them normally, possibly with a scheduled weekly backup for the SSD.

Anyway, A RAID (Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Drives) setup is the ability to combine a number of hard drives for data security and/or performance and present them to the operating system as a single drive. Ideally it is done with drives matched in capacity, speed and performance to get the best performance for that array. With newer RAID controllers an SSD can be added to act as a cache for the RAID array so performance is increased for the most commonly accessed files. Depending of the controller different levels of RAID are supported.

Typically motherboard controllers will only support RAID 0, 1 and 10.
RAID 0 - striping, this spreads data across 2 or more drives for increased capacity and performance, this has the downside there is no data redundancy so if a drive fails you've lost all your data.
RAID 1 - mirroring, this basically has identical images on both drives so if one drives fails you can still work away.
RAID 10 - a combination of the above.

I would suggest reading the wiki for more information on this and other RAID levels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels

Brad Neil2 · Apr 18, 2015

pauls3743 :

You're using a mechanical hard drive and an SSD, I would just use them normally, possibly with a scheduled weekly backup for the SSD.

Anyway, A RAID (Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Drives) setup is the ability to combine a number of hard drives for data security and/or performance and present them to the operating system as a single drive. Ideally it is done with drives matched in capacity, speed and performance to get the best performance for that array. With newer RAID controllers an SSD can be added to act as a cache for the RAID array so performance is increased for the most commonly accessed files. Depending of the controller different levels of RAID are supported.

Typically motherboard controllers will only support RAID 0, 1 and 10.
RAID 0 - striping, this spreads data across 2 or more drives for increased capacity and performance, this has the downside there is no data redundancy so if a drive fails you've lost all your data.
RAID 1 - mirroring, this basically has identical images on both drives so if one drives fails you can still work away.
RAID 10 - a combination of the above.

I would suggest reading the wiki for more information on this and other RAID levels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels

On PcPartPicker it said my MOBO supports RAID but there isn't a specific number so what would that mean? That it can do all of the above? http://nz.pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gah97d3h

pauls3743 · Apr 18, 2015

The manual reports the available RAID levels for your motherboard as 0, 1, 5 and 10.

The gigabyte website seems to be down just now but here's a copy of the manual from another source.
http://www.cclonline.com/content/pdfs/aldjUFC0BqtTn59921XgiA-3d-3d.pdf

Scroll down to page 11, it's the last line under Storage Interface.

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