Gigabyte GA-Z87x-OC RAID support?

[lowstandards]

Hello, I've been using an older (1st gen Core) motherbord for a few years and enjoy my 3 disk RAID 0 setup. I've recently decided to become current and have my new CPU and motherboard on the way.

Needless to say, I figured I'd go with the same and proven (for me) RAID 0 setup again for my Programs drive. However, and this quite shocks me, according the the manual for my Gigabyte GA-Z87x-CO manual, I will be unable to do this 3 drive RAID 0 setup! The manual clearly states:

"A RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration requires at least two hard drives. If more than two hard drives are to be used, the total number of hard drives must be an even number"

Must be an even number? I know I'm a couple of years behind but when did RAID 0 require even number hard drives? My current 3 drive setup works great and my cousin's 5 drive setup he loves (although he uses his as the boot drive too, FAIL!). This will be my first Gigabyte board and perhaps this is a limitation of this manufacturer? Or do we think it is the chipset itself?

If this info is, in fact, correct and my 3 drive RAID 0 fails upon attempt, I will be prolly go to a RAID 5 setup although I really don't like the idea of slower writes.

Any input on this, folks? Anyone else know of the "...total number of hard drives must be an even number" deal?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Tradesman1]

Yes you've got 6 SATA ^ ports under Intel supporting RAID 0/1/5/10 and 4 more run by a Marvel chipset w/ 0/1/5 - should be good on your RAID is already set up with Intel can just transfer it over (unless you have it w/ SSDs running a a 12xx SandDisk controller those aren't truly SATA 3 compliant and have troubles w/ the Z87 chipset