I'm planning to upgrade my Gigabyte 970A-DS3P Rev. 1.0 motherboard, because I need an additional SATA port.
I currently have a 4 disks in a RAID 5 configuration.
Can anyone confirm whether it is possible to upgrade motherboards, whilst retaining RAID integrity?
What restrictions would apply? e.g. same manufacturer, same northbridge, or only same south bridge?
The motherboard is 970/SB950, but there are no 7+ SATA boards with the same northbridge, only 990X/SB950 and 990FX/SB950.
Can anyone confirm whether any of these boards would be compatible with the current RAID?
| Manufacturer | Series | Model | Rev | Year | Form Factor | Socket | Slots | Protocol | Speed
(MHz) | Type | Capacity
(GB) | Slots | Northbridge | Southbridge | Multi-GPU | Chip | Channels | Chipset | Storage | Firewire | USB | Audio | Fans | Power | PCI | PCIe | Network | PS/2 | Firewire | USB | eSATA | Video | Audio |
| CrossFire | SLI | SATA | M.2 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.1 | SPDIF | 3-pin | 4-pin | 24-pin | 4-pin | 8-pin | Molex | X1 | X16 (4x) | X16 (8x) | X16 | RJ-45 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.1-A | 3.1-C | VGA | DVI | HDMI | DisplayPort | Jack out | Jack in | Optical out |
| ASUS | ROG | Crosshair V Formula-Z | 1.0 | 2012 | ATX | AM3+ | 1 | DDR3 | 2400 | 240-pin DIMM | 32 | 4 | AMD 990FX | AMD SB950 | Yes | Yes | Realtek ALC889 | 7.1 | Intel 82583V | 8x SATA3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1x 1000Mbit | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2x eSATA3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| ASUS | | M5A99FX PRO | 2.0 | 2012 | ATX | AM3+ | 1 | DDR3 | 2100 | 240-pin DIMM | 32 | 4 | AMD 990FX | AMD SB950 | Yes | Yes | Realtek ALC892 | 7.1 | Realtek RTL8111F | 7x SATA3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1x 1000Mbit | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1x eSATA2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| ASUS | | Sabertooth 990FX | 2.0 | 2012 | ATX | AM3+ | 1 | DDR3 | 1866 | 240-pin DIMM | 32 | 4 | AMD 990FX | AMD SB950 | Yes | Yes | Realtek ALC892 | 7.1 | Realtek RTL8111F | 8x SATA3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1x 1000Mbit | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2x eSATA3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Gigabyte | | 990FXA-UD5 | 3.0 | 2012 | ATX | AM3+ | 1 | DDR3 | 2000 | 240-pin DIMM | 32 | 4 | AMD 990FX | AMD SB950 | Yes | Yes | Realtek ALC1150 | 7.1 | Realtek # | 8x SATA3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1x 1000Mbit | 1 | 1x 1394a | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2x eSATA3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
