I have 2 - 500 gb hard drives on my previous FSX machine in a striped raid configuration. I want to move it to my new build machine and save the data on the drives. I am using a AMCC 3ware 9650SE SATA Raid Controller for these 2 drives to give me 1tb.The question is do I need to move the AMCC 3ware SATA Raid Controller with the drives to the new computer to maintain the integrity of the data on these drives or should I use the P8Z68 Deluxe/Gen3 MOB on board raid controller? My new computer specs are: ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe/Gen3 MOB, EVGA GTX 580, Antec High Current Pro 850w, Intel I-7 2700k, operating system drive Crucial M4 SSD 128gb, FSX drive Crucial M4 SSD 256gb, Win7 Professional 64. I plan to use this as the only hard drive on the computer, with programs that are large databases, but do not require fast access during rendering like PFE, GEX, etc. so as to keep my SSD drives from becoming filled with unnecessary files for fast FSX.Thanks,Lynn Fisher

P8Z68 Deluxe/Gen3 MOB on board raid controller?

I would reccomend doing a clean start. Use the onboard RAID controller. Be sure to back up all neccesary files before building your new setup.

ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe/Gen3 MOB, EVGA GTX 580, Antec High Current Pro 850w, Intel I-7 2700k, operating system drive Crucial M4 SSD 128gb, FSX drive Crucial M4 SSD 256gb, Win7 Professional 64.

Nice specs! Almost like mine!

I have 2 - 500 gb hard drives on my previous FSX machine in a striped raid configuration. I want to move it to my new build machine and save the data on the drives. I am using a AMCC 3ware 9650SE SATA Raid Controller for these 2 drives to give me 1tb.The question is do I need to move the AMCC 3ware SATA Raid Controller with the drives to the new computer to maintain the integrity of the data on these drives or should I use the P8Z68 Deluxe/Gen3 MOB on board raid controller? My new computer specs are: ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe/Gen3 MOB, EVGA GTX 580, Antec High Current Pro 850w, Intel I-7 2700k, operating system drive Crucial M4 SSD 128gb, FSX drive Crucial M4 SSD 256gb, Win7 Professional 64. I plan to use this as the only hard drive on the computer, with programs that are large databases, but do not require fast access during rendering like PFE, GEX, etc. so as to keep my SSD drives from becoming filled with unnecessary files for fast FSX.Thanks,Lynn Fisher

Why are you using RAID for an FSX installation? And if you insist, I recommend a quality PCI controller.

I have this board and it handled both my WD drives fine(on the Intel controller). It also has a marvell RAID controller with two 6gig ports and I can't say how well that works. I run a cherryville SSD for my OS and FSX installation and I have a crucial SSD now for my weather, texture programs etc etc.Honestly, I wouldn't run FSX on a RAID 0 config. You can purchase solid state now and the performance is absolutely fantastic. I get GREAT performance out of my SATA2 SSD(the crucial) and I am seeing FANTASTIC performance out of my new SATA3 Intel 520 cherryville drive.

Thanks guys. When I bought my old system I didn't know about the problem with Raid 0 as an FSX drive and frankly it worked pretty good. My 256 SSD is my new FSX drive. I would like to keep all the files that I have on the former FSX drive + use it for big database programs used with FSX. I'll have to see how hard it is to save the files off the raid 0 and take the 2 500 gb disks apart and use them separately. You gave me somethings to think aboutThanks,Lynn Fisher