Motherboard RAID or PCI-E RAID

Dennyd1

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May 21, 2013
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Which is better? I want to do a RAID 10 configuration with x4 6Gb/s sata, however, I cannot find a motherboard that has x4 6Gb/s sata that are good for RAID. I found a couple that have x2 that are for RAID, and then another x4 from some other company that are not designed with the bandwidth needed to fully utilize RAID.

Anuhow, I figured that maybe I can buy a PCI-E x16 3.0 RAID card that has x4. However, I've read about a few of them that they don't run at the speed to utilize the full potential sata 6Gb/s, and that they're actually not much better than Sata 3Gb/s, and I can find plenty of motherboards that have sata x4 3Gb/s for RAID.

My thinking is I'm going to end up having to just use the x4 3Gb/s sata ports because I can't seem to find a high-end motherboard that has x4 6Gb/s sata that can be used in RAID 10.

Do you know of any, or do you know of any cards that can actually run at the full speed to utilize the full bandwidth of sata 6Gb/s?