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    Hi,

    I've bought the RAID card 6405E from Adaptec like NeoGen did.
    Now I have a problem to find a motherboard that is compatible with this RAID card.
    I've bought the ASUS M5A99X-Evo R2.0 and the 6405E card but unfortunately they are not compatible.
    But I want to make this RAID card work in my system.
    I also bought the AMD 8350 with 4 times G.Skill 8GB 1866MHz. The CPU and the RAM were working without any problems with this mainboard.
    So I sent back the mainboard and now I am looking for a new mainboard which should work with all my equipment.
    Maybe the Asus Sabertooth 990FX/GEN3 R2.0 could work.

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    Hej Heiko!
    Welcome to the AMD Users forum.

    I sent NeoGen a PM to see if he can give you some expert advice since he has experience with that model and those issues.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HeikoRieger View Post
    Maybe the Asus Sabertooth 990FX/GEN3 R2.0 could work.
    Been searching for this mobo for more than two years now....as well as this board:
    Last edited by Dirk Broer; 09-28-2015 at 09:16 PM.


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    Dirk,
    You can't find that mobo in the Netherlands?
    Here in Sweden is it available and I am sure also in Germany.

    Sorry. ..the Gen3 is not available any more in Europe.

    Now my question: Is the normal sabertooth r2.0 also good and will my raid card work?
    Last edited by HeikoRieger; 09-28-2015 at 08:05 PM.

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    Hi Heiko,

    I can't see why not, the main difference between the Gen3 R2.0 and the 'plain' R2.0 is the controller chip that takes care of the PCIe 3.0.

    On the other hand, neither is named in the compatibility report by Adaptec, FWIW.


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    Hi Dirk,

    Quote Originally Posted by Dirk Broer View Post
    I can't see why not, the main difference between the Gen3 R2.0 and the 'plain' R2.0 is the controller chip that takes care of the PCIe 3.0.

    On the other hand, neither is named in the compatibility report by Adaptec, FWIW.
    I've bought the "ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0" and the Adadptec RAID-controller is not working. The same problems like with the other boards.
    So now I've decided to send the Adaptec-card back and looking for another hardware-RAID-controller.

    So I've found this one:
    LSI MegaRAID SAS 9341-4i

    megaraid-sas-9341-4i,0.jpg

    With this card is the problem. The "ASUS Sabertooth 990FX" is in the compatibility list but not the 'R2.0'.
    So the next question is:
    Work this RAID-card also in my 'R2.0' motherboard?
    What is the difference between the plain 'Sabertooth 990FX' and the 'R2.0'?

    Oh...I've just read it's a software raid-controller.
    So now the next one:
    LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i

    megaraid-sas-9260-4i,0.jpg

    This is really a hardware-RAID-controller.
    Last edited by HeikoRieger; 10-04-2015 at 04:13 PM.

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    RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60, now we're talking RAID..

    RAID (originally Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, now commonly Redundant Array of Independent Disks -they've found out that disks do not come inexpensive) is a data storage virtualisation technology that combines multiple physical disk drive components into a single logical unit for the purposes of data redundancy, performance improvement, or both.
    Raid Level Method Read performance Write performance Minimum disks needed Data protection Fault tolerance Scheme
    0
    striping,
    without mirroring or parity
    Better
    Better
    2
    None (!)
    No (!)
    1
    data mirroring,
    without parity or striping
    Better
    Slower
    2
    Mirror
    Yes
    5
    block-level striping
    with distributed parity
    Better
    Much slower
    3
    Parity,
    supports single disk failure
    Yes
    6
    block-level striping
    with double distributed parity
    Better
    Very much slower
    4
    Parity,
    supports two disks failures
    Yes
    10
    (1+0)
    striped data
    across mirrored pairs
    Better
    Bit slower
    4
    Mirror,
    one disk failure in each sub-array
    Yes
    50
    (5+0)
    straight block-level striping of RAID 0
    with the distributed parity of RAID 5
    Better
    Slower
    6
    Parity,
    One disk failure
    in each sub-array
    Yes
    60
    (6+0)
    straight block-level striping of RAID 0
    with the distributed double parity of RAID 6
    Better
    Slower
    8
    Parity,
    Two disks failures
    in each sub-array
    Yes
    Last edited by Dirk Broer; 10-08-2015 at 12:05 PM.


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    Quote Originally Posted by AMDave View Post
    Hej Heiko!
    Welcome to the AMD Users forum.

    I sent NeoGen a PM to see if he can give you some expert advice since he has experience with that model and those issues.
    Seeing the message a bit too late I guess, but to me the Adaptec 6405E has been working without a hitch, I have it installed on an Asus Sabertooth 990FX/GEN3 R2.0 with the latest BIOS version on the mobo and latest firmware version on the RAID controller itself.
    Adaptec has been changing hands a lot... it went from Adaptec... to PMC-Sierra... to Microsemi nowadays. But regardless of what the company is called, the product works wonders even with older hard drives, I just wish it had more cache memory.
    My favorite HDD monitoring software, Hard Disk Sentinel, unfortunately cannot see the drives through the controller to monitor SMART values, but using Adaptec's Maxview Storage Manager works.

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