ASRock Z97 Pro4 RAID and SSD

[jefferyjjensen]

I'm looking to buy the ASRock Z97 Pro4 motherboard and want to run Win7x64 on SSD then have my videos, CAD files, data saved on SATA raid. Want to see if anyone done something similar.

 

[Merlinski]

Hullo Jeff

I have exactly that - ASRock z97 Pro4 running W7x64 with Intel SSD for OS and 2 SATA 3 (6GB/s) Seagate Barracude 7200.12 drives configured as Raid 1 for data.

The issue I have is if one of the drives doesn't switch on within a few milliseconds of the other, Intel Rapid Storage Technology console reports it as a failed disk - so I go in to the software, mark the drive as normal, and let it rebuild the RAID.

There's clearly something going on as sometimes the drives are reported as 3Gb/s, sometimes as 6GB/s (which should be irrelevant as no HDD will ever reach 3GB/s let alone 6GB/s!)

So if I might hi-jack your thread, what's the best HARDWARE as opposed to onboard software RAID solution?

=)