X870 TAICHI CREATOR NVMe recommendations
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Topic: X870 TAICHI CREATOR NVMe recommendations
Posted By: Petercat
Subject: X870 TAICHI CREATOR NVMe recommendations
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2025 at 1:22am
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I just ordered an ASRock X870 TAICHI CREATOR AM5 motherboard. I haven't ordered any storage yet. I want 4X4TB Western Digital NVME drives in a RAID 10 array. What would be best? As two of the slots are Gen 4, should all four drives be the same, Gen4? Should all drives be the same make and model? I'll be running an AMD Ryzen??9 9950X, 64GB Corsair 6000 RAM and two EVGA 3090 GPUs with an as-yet undecided PSU. Thanks for any advice on the RAID 10 setup. |
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Posted By: NDRE28
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2025 at 2:18pm
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Hi! I've been on a RAID-0 setup for a few years (3x Samsung 970 Pro 1TB). Recently, I've bought an Intel Optane P5800X 400GB SSD, as my boot drive. I've deleted the RAID-0 array and I'm using my "regular" Samsung SSDs as separate partitions. My PC is more snappy now. My recommendation is: To buy a small, but very high end drive, as your boot drive (Intel Optane, or an SLC NAND based drive, like the Solidigm D7-P5810). Then, to buy an 8TB drive, like the Samsung 9100 Pro / MZ-VAP8T0CW). If you can afford such a setup, of course. |
Posted By: Petercat
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2025 at 12:30am
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My question was about implementing a RAID-5 array and the use of Gen4 and Gen5 4TB NVME drives. The Taichi has two Gen4 and two Gen5 NVME slots. With a RAID-5 array, is there any advantage to mixing Gen4 and Gen5 drives, or should I just use 4 Gen4 drives? 3 storage and one parity. |
Posted By: Xaltar
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2025 at 1:32am
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When it comes to RAID-5 setups you always want to keep your drives identical. This has been the general rule since the early days, AFAIK you can get away with some mixing and matching but why take the risk. Always go with the lowest common denominator, in this case NVMe Gen4. When you are mirroring drives you don't want there to be a bandwidth disparity, the system will default to the lower speed anyway. TLDR, there will be no benefit that will justify the risk and added cost of mixing in NVMe gen 5 drives. ------------- 
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Posted By: Petercat
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2025 at 1:52am
| Thank you. That is exactly the information I was looking for. |