AM1B-ITX - RAID 0 on all 4 x SATA 3 ports

Hi, 

Edited by zmooky - 04 Nov 2016 at 4:18am

zmooky wrote: Hi,  I see in the specs that for AM1B-ITX or AM1H-ITX there are two SATA controllers. One for 2 ports and the second for the other 2 ports. I quote: - 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors by AMD AM1 Series Socket 25W Quad-Core APU, support NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug - 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s Connectors by ASMedia ASM1061, support NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug I would like to add 4 x 15k hdd's in RAID 0, but before buying the MB I want to make sure that this is supported. The things with two different controllers is strange. Thank you

The two separate SATA controllers is not strange at all, and has been used by mother board manufactures for years. My six year old Asus X58 board has both Intel and Marvell SATA controllers.

Normally the board's chipset provides the SATA controller. If a mobo manufacture wants to add more SATA ports, they include add on SATA controllers, usually from Marvell and ASMedia.

The AM1 processors used with these boards, are of the SOC type, System On a Chip. They include some or all of the CPU's support chipset functions in the same package as the processor.

Since SOC type processors tend to be simpler devices, the AM1 processors only provide two SATA III ports. ASRock adds one ASMedia SATA chip to provide four total SATA ports.

Xaltar covered the RAID support you asked about.