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M.2 SSD plus two SATA SSDs config question

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Topic: M.2 SSD plus two SATA SSDs config question

Posted By: jalm111
Subject: M.2 SSD plus two SATA SSDs config question
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2016 at 2:20am

Extreme6 Z170

I got my system successfully working/booting with the SM951 plugged into the M.2 slot.

I now want to configure two auxiliary SSDs using SATA and RAID them to act as just extra storage space. What's the best way to do this? Is RAIDing SSDs a good idea (TRIM?). Can I keep the M.2 drive out of RAID and only have the two additional drives as a RAID volume? I know the M.2 is shared with SATA3_0, SATA3_1 and SATA_EXP0 so I guess I need to plug the two other SSDs into SATA3_2 and SATA3_3?

Thanks!