10 Best Motherboards for Raid
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- Easy To Install
- Reliable
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Why We Recommend These Products
Out of thousands of reviews for 141 products, over 400 people recommended Motherboards specifically for Raid. These 10 are the most highly recommended products we found.
Abit iP35 Pro 843323000223
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$280
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32 People Recommend
"- onboard raid…" - marine229002 at Shopping.com "it has performed amazingly since i first set it up and comes with all the features that you could need, from esata and firewire to raid and the ezcmos switch.…" - Newegg.com User "i have it fully loaded witha q6700, 8gbs ram, 4 raptor-xs in raid, and 2 1tb hdds.…" - Saxxter at Newegg.com |
Intel DP35DP
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$96 - $130
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31 People Recommend
"gave up on doing a raid 0 configuration for now had problems becuase no way to boot up on floppy at the time and the program to set it up on a running pc wont run.…" - Tigerdirect.com User "and if you plan to install xp, you will need to buy a usb 3.5'' floppy drive if you want the raid controller features enabled (the xp setup requires that you load the drivers from a floppy!).…" - Tigerdirect.com User "although i only have 1 hard drive right now, i might get a few small ones and raid them together so the raid contoller and extreme number of sata ports is really great.…" - Tigerdirect.com User |
eVGA nForce 650i ULTRA 122-CK-NF66-T1
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$119
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15 People Recommend
"it says detecting array, now i have 1 hd and i have raid disabled in bios, the technician from evga told me it could just be a bug...…" - Newegg.com User "i plugged in my raid 0 hard drives and without too many problems it was up and running.…" - Baltazar at Newegg.com "dual 500gb stripe raid setup.…" - buss driver at Newegg.com |
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6
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5 People Recommend
"summary: my 1st entire system upgrade from abit icg-max3;p4 3.4gig:ati x850xt agp, ddr 400 sata raid 0.…" - Mwave.com User "no issues with sound drivers or raid drivers, they all installed the first time.…" - Newegg.com User "running raid 5 with 5 samsung 500g drives, q6600 oc'd to 3ghz.…" - Newegg.com User |
INTEL MB BOXDQ35JOE 1333FSB DR2 800 AUD+LAN RAID
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$115 - $145
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5 People Recommend
"other thoughts: never tried using the raid controller, not sure how well that works…" - Dririan at Newegg.com "especially raid5 on sata. …" - Newegg.com User "pros: compact, makes a great raid - file server …" - Newegg.com User |
Gigabyte GA-M68SM-S2
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4 People Recommend
"the manual tells you to put the raid drivers on the floppy for winxp pro, but for a single drive just put the ahci drivers on it.…" - Newegg.com User "other thoughts: if you are installing one or more sata drives but do not intend on running raid then do not install raid drivers and do not change the bios mode from ide.…" - Newegg.com User "i had no trouble at all with the raid and sata drivers. …" - Newegg.com User |
Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H
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$103
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4 People Recommend
"i needed to create a floppy for setting up raid, and the dl'd file from gigabyte's website would not work.…" - Newegg.com User "other thoughts: if you're going to run linux, be aware that this chipset supports only software raid.…" - Newegg.com User "i needed to create a floppy for setting up raid, and the dl'd file from gigabyte's website would not work. …" - Newegg.com User |
ASUS M2R32-MVP
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$94 - $115
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3 People Recommend
"allows for multiple raid set ups…" - Newegg.com User "bios was most current(excluding beta version)and the board recognized my sata raid setup,2x 320gig sata ii seagate drives,amd64 5000 blk edition cpu,2600xt sapphire pcie 256 mb crossfire video card,…" - Newegg.com User "allows for multiple raid set ups …" - Newegg.com User |
Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2H
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3 People Recommend
"wish it had the ih9r (raid) but ih9 is ok, only 3 sata, thought there would be more, but would never need more cause i don't want the extra hdd noise.…" - Newegg.com User "cons: no raid. …" - Newegg.com User "wish it had the ih9r (raid) but ih9 is ok, only 3 sata, thought there would be more, but would never need more cause i don't want the extra hdd noise. …" - Newegg.com User |
ASUS P5K WS INTEL CORE2 EXTREME/CORE2 READY
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$193 - $221
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3 People Recommend
"other thoughts: if you are not going to use more than 3 scsi drives in raid, performance is the same in standard pci slot, it will work on 66 mhz…" - Newegg.com User "using it for my multimedia platform and the pci-x slot was key for future hardware raid capabilities.…" - N/A at Newegg.com " cons: alot of people were complaining about the raid not working and other stuff not working right. …" - Newegg.com User |
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