Hello Michael,

Welcome to InfiniteMac and enjoy your stay here!

You have a great board and the entire system is very much OSX compatible. You could have a perfect clone, i am sure.

Regarding raid, you can't make hardware raid to work with ich10r matrix raid controller. Not supported. Raid system is just a little step beyond a regular installation. You will need a mac os x compatible sata raid card, like hightpoint, rocketraid cards. They are only a bit expensive. There is also a cheaper solution (confirmed working and new 64bit raid drivers released recently) with cards based on sil3132 chipset. Cards are really not expensive, most of all bootable, firmware is flashable.

I was also going for a raid system with the same chipset based sata raid card. I'm just too snowed under with business and work. But pretty soon i am going to order one and setup my raid system with 2x 320gb on raid1 maybe. Almost to forget, they support raid0 and raid1, and they come as 2 port or 4 port cards. If you need anything else feel free to ask.

Kind regards!

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