Quote Originally Posted by Sylver123 View Post
Hi guys.

I have been thinking of buying another Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB to raid them together for double performance but I have never tried to raid drives before so i'm unsure
how to set this up on the R3E, so I was wondering if someone could let me know the propor way to set up raid on the Marvell Controller with two drives.

When setting up raid on the Marvell Controller do I have to install the Marvell drivers or can I still use windows own built in drivers? and if I can still use the built in windows
drivers will I lose automatic Trim with raid setup?

Also would I have to reinstall my windows to setup raid or can I convert my existing windows install onto a raid drive setup?

What would be the best raid mode to use for best performance, raid 0, raid 1 etc?

Thanks a lot guys for helping.

Sylver123.
to what i recall - the Marvell controller and the Intel controller are two seperate controllers. the one you see when you first built your computer (to my knowledge) is the Intel controller. i personally just use the intel controller sense when i got my board the marvell controller was a bit off but i also haven't tried the new drivers either. you'll just have to decide which you want to use... although the marvell controller for our board is SATA6 ready where as the intel controller is not.

as for installing windows, yes you'll have to as setting up raid requires erasing all data and sync'ing both drives together. Raid 0 is your performance buster.

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