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I'm going to be building a new system soon, very similar to the one in my system specs which I'm selling but I'd like to make a few small alterations. I'd like something that can overclock very well, I will probably be buying an E6600 now that the price has dropped, maybe even a E6700. The Gigabyte DS3 I have now is very nice for overclocking, but it only has 2x SATA RAID ports. Are there any motherboards good with overclocking that has maybe 3 or 4 RAID? I'll probably use 3 drives, 4 doesn't seem worth the risk of a drive dieing.
 
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DS4 rev 3.3 and DQ6 are very nice Mobos.
 
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How about an ASUS P5B-Deluxe? They clock like a mofo, and have all the features you're after.
 
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Wile E said:
How about an ASUS P5B-Deluxe? They clock like a mofo, and have all the features you're after.
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Yeah 6 (actually i think theres 8 sata ports :ohwell:)
6 ports together and i know ive seen at least one more somewhere else randomly on the board lol...
 
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yep. 7...heres a pic just in case you wanted to see the sata.
The one on its own said SATA Raid next to it.
Does that mean you can have 7 drives in raid?

Or just one, and another plugged into the SATA Raid port?
hmmmmmmm
 

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ex_reven said:
yep. 7...heres a pic just in case you wanted to see the sata.
The one on its own said SATA Raid next to it.
Does that mean you can have 7 drives in raid?

Or just one, and another plugged into the SATA Raid port?
hmmmmmmm
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I'm guessing that the black ones can be used for Raid, and the red ones can't...but until I see a manual I can't say more than that. Normally if you look on the website of the board makers they have the manual in pdf form.
 
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Darknova said:
I'm guessing that the black ones can be used for Raid, and the red ones can't...but until I see a manual I can't say more than that. Normally if you look on the website of the board makers they have the manual in pdf form.
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Red ones should be for the Intel ICH8R Raid, and the Black ones should be the Jmicron RAID. Avoid the black ones. lol

EDIT: Hmmm, nix that. It seems the group of 6 are all ICH8R connectors. Reds ones are considered Master and to be used for booting in a RAID, Black ones are considered Slave, and to be used for Storage in a raid. Apparently, you can't do a 6 drive array, ony 4 and 2, and 2 on the Jmicron.
 
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4 is more than enough for me, is it worth setting up 4 drives in RAID 0? My data is unimportant, I'm just a gamer so I want the most performance, but even still I don't want to have to deal with crashes often. Is 3 or 4 a better number of drives to use? At what point do the benefits of more drives outweigh the risk of one dieing?
 
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IF youre into Video editing, 3dAnimation RAID can give you a substantial amount of less time to wait or speed increase take it as you like.
However thats all theres to it, no difference in games ( except loading times ).
 
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OrbitzXT said:
4 is more than enough for me, is it worth setting up 4 drives in RAID 0? My data is unimportant, I'm just a gamer so I want the most performance, but even still I don't want to have to deal with crashes often. Is 3 or 4 a better number of drives to use? At what point do the benefits of more drives outweigh the risk of one dieing?
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I wouldn't use more than 2 drives in RAID 0, the benfits of using more than 2 are minimal and not worth it. Use 2 with RAID 0, and 2 more for storage.
 
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