I'm hoping the expertise here can help resolve a problem / question that ASUS tech support is apparently having trouble comprehending.
I'm trying to find out how one can make a RAID of 4 drives without using ports 5-6. I can't see how one can do that.
The esata port being port 4 raises two obvious problems, and I can't believe that a company as well-respected as ASUS would put out a product in this state:
(1) One can't do what I want to do [unless one runs a cable out of the case and back to the esata port to make it part of the RAID]
(2) One can't set up a RAID at all using ports 1-3 without thus preventing independent use of the esata port, because ports 1-4 have to be set TOGETHER as RAID or non-RAID
Am I actually correct in my understanding? I'm hoping not!!
== original query to ASUS -- to which ASUS replied that it looked like Port 4 was the eSATA port
I want to set up a data (non-booted) RAID 5 array using four 2TB HDD and boot from a
separate HDD. I purchased this MB (which I like a lot) because it advertized 6 SATA
ports and ability to support RAID 5. However, after reading the user manual several
times now, and trying Google, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to achieve the
desired configuration. The drive setup clearly allows setting SATA 1-4 as RAID and
SATA 5-6 as IDE or ACHI, but I can't figure our how to put 4 internal HDD as RAID on
ports 1-4. Though not explicitly stated as far as I can tell, the eSATA port appears to be
port 4, and I sure don't want to run a cable all the way across the case to exist the case
and plug it in there! I =sure= would appreciate any help, including a pointer to the
information online that I surely must have missed.
I'm trying to find out how one can make a RAID of 4 drives without using ports 5-6. I can't see how one can do that.
The esata port being port 4 raises two obvious problems, and I can't believe that a company as well-respected as ASUS would put out a product in this state:
(1) One can't do what I want to do [unless one runs a cable out of the case and back to the esata port to make it part of the RAID]
(2) One can't set up a RAID at all using ports 1-3 without thus preventing independent use of the esata port, because ports 1-4 have to be set TOGETHER as RAID or non-RAID
Am I actually correct in my understanding? I'm hoping not!!
== original query to ASUS -- to which ASUS replied that it looked like Port 4 was the eSATA port
I want to set up a data (non-booted) RAID 5 array using four 2TB HDD and boot from a
separate HDD. I purchased this MB (which I like a lot) because it advertized 6 SATA
ports and ability to support RAID 5. However, after reading the user manual several
times now, and trying Google, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to achieve the
desired configuration. The drive setup clearly allows setting SATA 1-4 as RAID and
SATA 5-6 as IDE or ACHI, but I can't figure our how to put 4 internal HDD as RAID on
ports 1-4. Though not explicitly stated as far as I can tell, the eSATA port appears to be
port 4, and I sure don't want to run a cable all the way across the case to exist the case
and plug it in there! I =sure= would appreciate any help, including a pointer to the
information online that I surely must have missed.