intel ssd raid ?

[alanwest09872]

Ok I already have one xm-25 or whatever its called. I have the new evga 760 mb. If i put 2 of the ssd in raid would it be able to handle the speed or should I get a dedicated card.

If I should get a card which one should I get. I have been looking and I seen

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816118113
and
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816115073

The one is much more expensive then the first I know thats mainly because of the x8 to x1 pcie connections and the SATA / SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) (which I have no idea what that means.

Basically would the cheap one be able to handle a raid ssd setup.

EDIT: also from what I was made to understand the south bridge handles raid hard disk drives. Now if I got a raid card would that ease on the heat that the sb is producing

 

[nomagic]

The LSI card is more expensive because it supports up to 8 SAS/SATA ports in RAID 0/1/1E/10. The HighPoint one supports only 2 eSATA ports.

Because they are both adapter cards and not hareware RAID controller cards, there should be little difference in performance in a two-disk RAID0 setup. If your motherboard supports firmware RAID such as Intel Matrix RAID, you should just use the onboard RAID.

 

[alanwest09872]

what about heat wise. If the south bridge is what handles hd and raid then Will it produce less heat. My 3 sli is right on top of it and causes extra heat

EDIT: sorry forgot to say thank you. Lol I appreciate the help.

 

[nomagic]

Suppose that you have a motherboard with X58 chipset. Knowing that you run a tri-SLI setup, I assume that it runs in x16/x8/x8 mode. Now you have one PCI-E 1.1 x1 slot and no PCI-E 2.0 slot left to use. There is no room to add another PCI-E 2.0 card.

Personally, I wouldn't worry about the temperature of the southbridge as long as there is adequate air flow.

Intel Matrix RAID leaves a most of the "handling" to the CPU, so I guess heat is not an issue.

 

[alanwest09872]

I have the evga 760 the way its setup I have plenty. 4 pcie 2.0 x16 a pci and a pcie x1

and the tri sli runs at 16x 16x and either 8x or 16x. I can place 3 tri sli cards in. a raid pcie x1 card and a physc all in the motherboard at once. So I def have the room

Picture of motherboard and specs
http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=141-BL-E760-A1&family=Motherboard%20Family

Go to this other thread I made it will show you a pic with everything in it.
tri sli one physx card and 1 audio card
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2031853

so as you can see I can put it in. Now the reason I wanna lower the temp of my south bridge is because its right under neith my tri sli system and I think its causing some heat issues. Now if I am able to take away some of what the south bridge is resonsible for I believe that will lower the tempature down and help my graphics cards. (mainly the first in the set of 3).The raid card is so small also that I dont have to worry about producing alot of heat next to the sli cards. Also sinse its so thin the fan I have pointed at my graphics card (took off my side have 2 fans pointed right at graphics card to reduce heat).

So please if I place a raid card in the pcie 2.0 slot and hook up my 2 intel ssd willl the card be able to handle the speed and will it lower the southbridge temps.