8 SATA without using RAID ASUS A8N-SLI

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I recently decided to upgrade my system, and would like to get a
motherboard capable of supporting 8 hard drives. The ASUS A8N-SLI
Premium seemed to fit the bill, as it has 8 SATA connections. However,
upon further review, these connections fall into two groups - 4
connections are for normal SATA drive use, and the other 4 connections
are only able to be used for RAID purposes.

What I would ultimately like to do is hook up 8 hard drives without
making any use of RAID. The first set of 4 can be hooked up with no
problem and no RAIDing required, but the second set of 4 will be an
issue. The only solution that I have been able to come up with is to
set up this second set of 4 hard drives as FOUR independent RAID JBOD
arrays, which will give me what I want (basically negate the RAID
effect while fullfilling the RAID requirement of these motherboard
connections).

However, I have looked around and can't find any confirmation that I
can even set up FOUR single-drive RAID JBOD arrays (or even one
single-drive RAID JBOD array, for that matter). Does anyone know if
the configuration I'm describing is possible to set up?
 
Terry said:
I recently decided to upgrade my system, and would like to get a
motherboard capable of supporting 8 hard drives. The ASUS A8N-SLI
Premium seemed to fit the bill, as it has 8 SATA connections. However,
upon further review, these connections fall into two groups - 4
connections are for normal SATA drive use, and the other 4 connections
are only able to be used for RAID purposes.
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You'd better double-check that. The way I read the specs (could be wrong)
is that four of the connectors are raid capable. -Dave
 
Terry said:
I recently decided to upgrade my system, and would like to get a
motherboard capable of supporting 8 hard drives. The ASUS A8N-SLI
Premium seemed to fit the bill, as it has 8 SATA connections. However,
upon further review, these connections fall into two groups - 4
connections are for normal SATA drive use, and the other 4 connections
are only able to be used for RAID purposes.

What I would ultimately like to do is hook up 8 hard drives without
making any use of RAID. The first set of 4 can be hooked up with no
problem and no RAIDing required, but the second set of 4 will be an
issue. The only solution that I have been able to come up with is to
set up this second set of 4 hard drives as FOUR independent RAID JBOD
arrays, which will give me what I want (basically negate the RAID
effect while fullfilling the RAID requirement of these motherboard
connections).

However, I have looked around and can't find any confirmation that I
can even set up FOUR single-drive RAID JBOD arrays (or even one
single-drive RAID JBOD array, for that matter). Does anyone know if
the configuration I'm describing is possible to set up?
Click to expand...
Yes, it is possible.

That board can have up to 8 separate drives, or 2 in RAID and 6 separate, in
fact, just about any configuration that involves between 1 and 8 actual hard
drives.

Quick question, what case do you intend to use that has 8 hard drive bays?

Cheers!
 
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