which motherboard for basic raid?

[akaneria]

Hi Guys

I'm looking for a basic Asus motherboard but which has RAID as a function, it's mainly going to be used for backup purposes only really. I thought all new motherboards had raid function? Some of these show up as saying "none".
Can anyone please advise?

http://www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer-...4/713/753/1012

[shaithis]

Most (if not all) do. You have linked to intel mobos....is that because you have a chip already? If the machine is just beign used for backup, I would recommend a much cheaper AMD system.

[akaneria]

Yes i already have a basic i3 chip, it's also used for some crunching.
If nearly all intel motherbaords do it, why is it that some say in the description RAID : SATA and some say RAID: NONE.
Do some of these have a dedicated raid chip?
For example this does not say raid: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-...vga)-dvi-d-atx

and this says raid: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-...i-d-sub-(vga)-

i.m just a bit confused as it's going to run SBS 2011 and need raid to run.

[shaithis]

According to Intels B75 documentation, it has Intel Rapid Storage technology.....of which one of it's features is raid.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/...s-chipset.html

I guess Asus maybe remove the RAID firmware from the BIOS if those boards really do not do RAID....fairly easy to put back in though if that's the case.

[akaneria]

It's strange why they would remove it?
But just need to be sure before I purchase it, as I don't really want to mess around with putting raid back on, just need it to be ready to use without any issues or patches.

[shaithis]

I wouldn't risk it then, very little info about those boards.

[smargh]

RAID is not a backup method.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#Data_backup
http://www.2brightsparks.com/resourc...-solution.html
http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index...kup_Technology
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/n...-is-not-backup
http://serverfault.com/questions/288...d-not-a-backup

etc