It would be easier to do so by running the RAID off of the JMicron or Marvell controller and running the SSD and Storage drive off of the standard SATA drives.
AHCI is the newest controller used along with IDE & RAID. It provides support to the newer features on SSD's & Hard Drives, I.e. - Hot Swap drives. It is recommended to run SSD's in AHCI mode over IDE.
what do you mean a different sata port? like 3gb of 6gb?
Typically, your motherboard will have two SATA controllers (native &/or JMicron/Marvell. The different ports (controllers) are represented by the different color SATA port. These have their own settings in the BIOS where you can run them in IDE, AHCI or RAID for example.
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also i have a 500gb 7200rpm hdd that i store files on. is it alright to run off ahci?
i have an asus rampage formula 3 and all i see is sata 3 and 6. black an red. isnt the red just sata 6gb not a separate controller.
You are correct... your board has an Intel ICH10R controller and Marvell® 9128 PCIe SATA 6Gb/s controller, along with JMicron® JMB363 PATA and SATA controller for your eSATA.
I have 3 ssds, an intel ssd (38gb) that i use for windows and similar things, 2 ocz vertex 50 gbs and a 500gb 7200rpm hdd. which 2 ssds should i run off of which controller and which one should i run ahci off? Should I also not run my dvd drive off of ahci?
With your setup not running a SATA III drive, I would run all on the Intel ICH10R controller under AHCI. It won't effect any of the drives (DVD drives will work fine).
Since the drives are on different controllers, you set that controller to RAID versus AHCI. Also, remember TRIM is not supported by RAID, so you'll have to relay on "garbage collection" to clean the drive.