I have been building a custom PC the last couple of weeks with the help of these forums. After some discussion it was suggested to me that I scrap what I was doing and build a Raid 5 system. So everything is on the way from Newegg and now I have some additional questions. I have ordered 3 Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD7500AAKS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drives for my system, and I have a PK5 deluxe Asus mb. I have been doing some additional reading, and it everywhere I look it seems to say that RAID 10 is the better way to go. I am running a powerful PC not for gaming, but multitasking and running a SQL database. My questions are:
■Should I buy the extra drive and run Raid 10 instead?
■The mb says that it supports Raid 10 on the southbridge, but when I look up additional information in the user manual, it only talks about Raid 0 & 1 http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1646&l1=3&l2=11&l3=534&l4=0. I am a total newb at this so I don't really understand how to do this. Do I need a Raid controller card which ever way I go? Or is this something that can be done through my mb?
Any help and direction will be greatly appreciated!
■Should I buy the extra drive and run Raid 10 instead?
■The mb says that it supports Raid 10 on the southbridge, but when I look up additional information in the user manual, it only talks about Raid 0 & 1 http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1646&l1=3&l2=11&l3=534&l4=0. I am a total newb at this so I don't really understand how to do this. Do I need a Raid controller card which ever way I go? Or is this something that can be done through my mb?
Any help and direction will be greatly appreciated!