have 4xSATA HDD’s in a RAID 0 configuration which was setup using a Marvell 88SE9172 controller on my Gigabyte GA-Z77x-UP7 motherboard, which is now dead.
I’ve researched and so far I can’t find a motherboard from that era which has 4xSATA ports available which use the Marvell 88SE9172 controllers and the RAID 0 configuration. The motherboard has 2 x Marvell 88SE9172 controllers which allows 4 SATA HDDs to be configured as one RAID 0. I can’t find this on another board without pretty much rebuilding and buying a lot of new parts.
I can buy a second hand Gigabyte GA-Z77x-UP7 board for £230, but it’s international shipping and it’s quite expensive for me for such an old board.
Or are there any tips on how I can read the drives elsewhere:
does anyone know of any LGA1155 boards which use the Marvell 88SE9172 controller, and allows 4 SATA HDDs to be configured as one RAID 0?
maybe a PCI-e expansion card that supports this setup?
would other Marvell controllers allow me to read the data?
I only have a laptop available and an external USB enclosure. I have Ubuntu available too on my dual boot laptop - could I read the data from the HDDs if I put them separately into the USB enclosure and boot up Ubuntu, or is there a risk it might try to write a new EXT4 file system on the drive and make things worse?
Any hints or tips would be greatly appreciated.