How to connect 4 hard drives, 2 sata 1TB HDD drives and 2 SSD 128 drives

sparrow2000 · Sep 4, 2016

Hello all need some advice, just got a new computer that came with 1TB HDD, and 1 SSD 128mb drives, I also have an 1TB HDD from my old computer and a friend game me another SSD 128mb drive. What is the beat way to use them. More so wondering can I set this up in a raid ,or multiple raid, etc. Oh and I have an Asus H170-pro motherboard, I very much would appreciate any help. Ty

CountMike · Sep 6, 2016

Forget about RAID, it's just not worth it. Just plug them all in, clean them up and use for storage and backup.

kedwa30 · Sep 7, 2016

That's an awesome MB. Obviously you will want to connect your SSD's to the SATA Express port.
If you need more speed, then I would suggest you get more ram and make a ram drive. I won't go into how to use the ramdrive here, but ram is still way faster than the fastest SSD. I don't think it makes sense to use SSD drives in a RAID configuration unless it's a mission critical application that must not fail, and in that case, it is a RAID 1 configuration.
The regular hard drives, OTOH, can noticeably benefit from RAID 0.

Of course the best way to see what you want is to experiment, so definitely get some experience setting up raid. I have wondered myself if it was possible to use a smaller SSD drive just for the parity bit in a RAID 4 setup. But your MB only supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 so you would need to experiment with that with a software RAID.

sparrow2000 · Sep 7, 2016

kedwa30 :

That's an awesome MB. Obviously you will want to connect your SSD's to the SATA Express port.
If you need more speed, then I would suggest you get more ram and make a ram drive. I won't go into how to use the ramdrive here, but ram is still way faster than the fastest SSD. I don't think it makes sense to use SSD drives in a RAID configuration unless it's a mission critical application that must not fail, and in that case, it is a RAID 1 configuration.
The regular hard drives, OTOH, can noticeably benefit from RAID 0.

Of course the best way to see what you want is to experiment, so definitely get some experience setting up raid. I have wondered myself if it was possible to use a smaller SSD drive just for the parity bit in a RAID 4 setup. But your MB only supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 so you would need to experiment with that with a software RAID.

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