It's time to build me a new PC and I've run into a roadblock... I already have a case, some hard drives, monitors, cables, I/O peripherals, Optical drives, etc, so up front all I'm looking to get is the big 5: motherboard, processor, memory, video card, and powersupply.
Easy start, right?
Nope! Long ago, I learned the overwhelming power of hardware RAID... so naturally I'm running all of my hard drives through this little beastie!
That, good sirs, is an Areca arc-1883i SAS RAID controller with in-built hardware encryption (DARPA level encryption I might add), 8 gigs of cache (complete with a battery backup), Network management, and external JBOD support!
Before you ask, no this is NOT a server environment, this is my home PC. most of the hardware in this build is modest because that raid controller attached to a batch of cheep/low capacity SSDs can (and regularly does) out perform the best m.2 drives on the market... even in raid zero!!!
and herein is my problem... I know the Z150 chipset supports 20 lanes aside from the 16 lanes supported by the proc, but is there an LGA 1151 motherboard out there that actually separates these lanes out between PCIe ports? In other words, is there motherboard out there that will allow me to run my Video card at x16 and my raid controller at x8?
...or am I just going to have to go back to Haswell procs and x99 Chipsets (which support 40 lanes)?
Easy start, right?
Nope! Long ago, I learned the overwhelming power of hardware RAID... so naturally I'm running all of my hard drives through this little beastie!
That, good sirs, is an Areca arc-1883i SAS RAID controller with in-built hardware encryption (DARPA level encryption I might add), 8 gigs of cache (complete with a battery backup), Network management, and external JBOD support!
Before you ask, no this is NOT a server environment, this is my home PC. most of the hardware in this build is modest because that raid controller attached to a batch of cheep/low capacity SSDs can (and regularly does) out perform the best m.2 drives on the market... even in raid zero!!!
and herein is my problem... I know the Z150 chipset supports 20 lanes aside from the 16 lanes supported by the proc, but is there an LGA 1151 motherboard out there that actually separates these lanes out between PCIe ports? In other words, is there motherboard out there that will allow me to run my Video card at x16 and my raid controller at x8?
...or am I just going to have to go back to Haswell procs and x99 Chipsets (which support 40 lanes)?
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