X58 RAID 10 - Am I forced to use Sata2?

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Published on 2010-05-15T19:11:59Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 19:24 UTC
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I'm building a new dev computer. It will be running a few VMWare Worksation virtual machines. I was advised on Serverfault to use Raid10 for performance. Raid 10 uses 4 disks.

I contacted my supplier who suggested a gigabyte X58A motherboard and 4 Western Digital Caviar black 6Gb/s disks.

I have checked the spec for the X58A board, however, and it says: SATA 3Gb/s: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10 SATA 6Gb/s: RAID 0, and RAID 1.

I'm losing half the bandwidth because I'm forced to use SATA2! What should I do?

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