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- Sep 29, 2012
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I have a Areca card with two SAS connectors, for one connector I am planning on setting up 4-HHD in RAID10, but I also have 2-SSD that I am planning on setting up in RAID0 and to use the latter as my OS and for a scratch-drive (split-partitioned). So I am wondering would it be better to connect the SSD through the motherboard or apply them to the second SAS connector? (The motherboard is an EVGA X58 C-3 and the system runs on a large Cyberpower UPS.)
My thinking is that keeping the RAIDS on the card will minimize CPU use, but that it might be better to split the work between the two and running from MOBO might prevent Windows issues, but that also it is possible there could be nice speed improvements if everything is ran from the PCIe PCIe/SAS adaptor being that the Intel HDD drivers for this mobo are crap.
My thinking is that keeping the RAIDS on the card will minimize CPU use, but that it might be better to split the work between the two and running from MOBO might prevent Windows issues, but that also it is possible there could be nice speed improvements if everything is ran from the PCIe PCIe/SAS adaptor being that the Intel HDD drivers for this mobo are crap.