ASRock 970M Pro3 and raid

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I'm buying an ASRock 970M Pro3 motherboard which has raid built-in. Can I install the os on a non-raid drive and keep another another drive out of the raid for scratch. I plan on setting of Raid 10 on 4 x 2TB drives. The box is going to be used for local storage and photo editing. Def not a gaming rig. I will run 16GB of ram initially with a view to going to 32 eventually. The processor is a fairly light duty AMD Phenom II X4 830 2.8 GHz Quad-Core HDX830WFK4DGM. I also am adding a 2GB DDR3 Radeon R5 220 video card. Again, nothing high end.

Sooooo...will it work to keep 2 drives out of the pool when using on-board raid?
 
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It sounds like it should work then. RAID-ing unmatched drives can be done but is likely to be a lot less stable. My RAID array is paired with an m.2 SSD as the boot volume but single drives can be controlled with the BIOS set to RAID also (even my own blu-ray drive)
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It will work. The BIOS will let you select which drives to include in RAID.

What drives are you going to RAID together? It works best if they're matched, and designed for RAID/NAS use. I have a large storage pool with 5x4TB HGST Deskstar NAS drives (of the exact same model).
 
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I am using 4 Seagate Barracuda 3.5 Inch 2Tb 7200 Rpm 64Mb 6Gb/S Internal Sata Drive OEM drives. All bought at the same time and pretty much the same lot judging by the serial numbers.

I just found a AMD Phenom II X4 945 Deneb Quad-Core 3.0 GHz cpu I forgot I had so that will replace the 830. It's not much of a jump but again, I'm not building a gaming rig.
 
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It sounds like it should work then. RAID-ing unmatched drives can be done but is likely to be a lot less stable. My RAID array is paired with an m.2 SSD as the boot volume but single drives can be controlled with the BIOS set to RAID also (even my own blu-ray drive)
 
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