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My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-X58A-OC

On Christmas I purchased two Intel 480gb 530 SSDs for cheap. I had them recently on my Marvell SATA 6 slots onboard. However, I plan to move them over to my unoccupied slots and get two SEDNA - PCI Express (PCIe) SATA III (6G) SSD cards for cheap on Amazon.

I will use them on 2 slots of PCI2 2.0 x 8. Can I RAID them in 0?

I am currently using a 4TB (2x2TB) RAID 0 configuration on my onboard Marvell SATA III slots, so I no longer have those speeds available which is why I presented my initial sentences.

Any suggestions of acknowledgements would be greatly appreciated. I plan to do 4K Media work starting February.
 
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Though this look familure XD just answered on the other thread.

My 2 cents.

Option 1) Wouldn't be a bad option. Toss one SSD on it and then connect the other to a SATA port then RAID 0 them. With just the two SSD's their should be enough bandwidth on that.

Option 2) has no built in RAID options so you would have to do a full on Software RAID which is eeehhhh...

Would be better off looking for a good PCIe RAID card. There are a lot out there that can do RAID 1/0 without issue.

If space is an issue you can look into a caddy like this.

https://www.google.com/search?q=4+2.5+drives+in+5.25+bay&safe=off&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=955&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNrNLghuLKAhVG8mMKHV_MAzYQ_AUIBygC

to free up space.
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The Sedna PCIe cards I've seen are all PCIe 2.0 x1 so they will bottleneck your SSDs max speeds a little bit. It probably wouldn't matter in RAID 0 since you won't saturate two SATA ports in such a configuration due to overhead and other issues, but its worth noting. If there is a PCIe 2.0 x8 model and I'm just missing it, then that would work fine if the motherboard and card will support booting from them.

I make no guarantees of RAID 0 even working in this configuration. You might be able to use software RAID 0, but that's really not the best solution for RAID 0. Regardless, USAFRet is correct in that RAID 0 is kinda pointless on SSDs anyway.
 
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Thank you fellas. I TRULY APPRECIATE the feedback. And I agree, or rather I assumed, that SSD's in RAID 0 are a bit weird. The main reason why I inquired is because there's this:

Sedna SSD SATA Raid 0 Hyper Duo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1JM1W57777

and this:

http://www.amazon.com/Sonnet-Tempo-Thunderbolt-Compatible-TSATA6-SSDPS-E2/dp/B00LA37XIS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1454281201&sr=8-1&keywords=sonnet+tech+raid+ssd

I use Adobe Premiere and various forms of scratching media from different locations. This has been my workflow for years, particularly from early Firewire interfaces to internal RAID 0 SATA III mainboard slots (Marvell), and now exploring PCIe 2.0 configuration whether in RAID 0 or not.

What would you say about the Sonnet with my two Intel 530's? I am trying to use less space in my chassis. =)

I love the answers. Thank you so much.
 
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Though this look familure XD just answered on the other thread.

My 2 cents.

Option 1) Wouldn't be a bad option. Toss one SSD on it and then connect the other to a SATA port then RAID 0 them. With just the two SSD's their should be enough bandwidth on that.

Option 2) has no built in RAID options so you would have to do a full on Software RAID which is eeehhhh...

Would be better off looking for a good PCIe RAID card. There are a lot out there that can do RAID 1/0 without issue.

If space is an issue you can look into a caddy like this.

https://www.google.com/search?q=4+2.5+drives+in+5.25+bay&safe=off&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=955&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNrNLghuLKAhVG8mMKHV_MAzYQ_AUIBygC

to free up space.
 
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