Quote Originally Posted by bhavv View Post
Sorry, I'm a complete nubcake when it comes to Raid

Right now I've got my two F3s in Raid 0. If I buy a second 64 Gb C300 and then erase my current one, can I put the two C300s in Raid 0 before reinstalling Windows onto them? Would the data on my F3 raid 0 array remain safe? I have it regularly backed up onto an F4 anyway, but it still seems like setting this up would be a nightmare:

- Raid 0 64 Gb C300s on Marvel Sata III ports with Windows 7 installed on them
- Raid 0 Samsung F3s for my gaming drive
- 1 F4 for backing up the raid, the other F4 for everything else.

Thats what I want to do, would it be easy or difficult to setup on this board?

From the results posted, people pretty much confirm what I've always heard about the marvel ports - a single Sata III SSD on them is faster than it is on the Intel Sata II ports, but two SSDs in Raid 0 work a lot better on the Intel ports than they do on the Marvel.

I think I'll simply not bother, I've always wanted raid 0 goodness with my C300, but it wont do anything plugged into my remaining marvel port.
Modifying the ssd raid config will not affect the raid config of your hdd raid. You'll get faster performance with a raid0 on marvell than a single disk, it just won't be as fast as raid0 on the intel controller.

Quote Originally Posted by zinsco View Post
If you had them on the sata 2 intel chip, you would get the same if not better. Why use the Marvell if you don't get any performance boost over the intel and the intel chip is tried and true for a long time. Not just performance in speed but a better chip period.

Here's my two vertex 2's R0 on the intel:

I have my intel controller populated fully with platter based disks and my optical drives... I'm not really going to cry over less than 80mb/sec in the grand scheme of 450+mb/sec read speeds... lol and well, my intel drives couldn't write faster than 140mb/sec even if they wanted to.