Need help with buying a mobo for 3x ssd in raid 0

[Effective]

Hi,

I am building a rig and have ordered 3 x crucial m4 128gb SSDs. I am wondering which mobo would be right for me.
I am thinking of getting the asrock z77 pro4 as it has 4x sata3 connections. Here is the problem - i dont understand raid 0 very much yet and i dont understand whether this mobo enables me to use all 3 SSDs in raid 0 configuration while also not bottlenecking the performance.

Tl;dr
3xSSD in raid 0, which mobo is right? Thinking of z77 pro4 but dont understand sata and raid 0 fully.

Thanks and hope some of you can help me :)

EDIT: as i have understood so far then i wont get a mobo like that for a decent price, so a new question arises - can i run 2x ssd in sata 3 and one in sata 2 and still have them all set up in a raid 0 config?
Ty, and sorry for bad typing, im on a tablet...

[MARSTG]

you are already on the right track, getting a mobo with intel chipset. Issue is only 2 of the ports of sata III are on the Intel controller, the other 2 are on the ASMedia controller. You will not be able to get them all 3 in RAID 0 on the same controller, only 2 of them.

[BryceBooth]

I would suggest running a two-drive RAID 0 on that Intel chipset, or spending an extra $150+ to get a HighPoint HBA therefore allowing you to run all your drives at the specified SATA III speeds.
Make sure the drives are updated with the latest firmware before building the RAID, and grab a hard drive for back-ups, as a single drive failure in RAID 0 will lose everything.
And yes, you should have no problem running that RAID across the Intel SATA II and SATA III ports, keep in mind that the performance will be lower than that of a two-disk RAID 0 on Intel's SATA III.

[486]

I guess you are process oriented, not goal oriented, eh?

[dandelioneater]

Raid 0 setup as per Linus Tech Tips

this should give you a basic understanding of raid 0 and the setup. I don't remember what motherboard he uses in the video, but it's intel so it should be similair in a Z77 board.

what about picking up a raid card?

[MARSTG]

i think simplest way to deal with the problem would be to limit yourself to just 2 drives in raid 0 on the intel controller and use the 3rd drive for something else. Buying a professional card for RAID is another solution like LSI 9211 8i, but that would be another 250$. How about selling all the drives and getting a RevoDrive? but I think best and cheapest would be to stay with just 2 in raid 0.

[Effective]

Thanks for all the replies

i watched almost the whole channel of linus tech tips and ncixcom and i feel much more educated :D.

I finished my rig with 2 x SSD in raid 0 SATA III and an extra hardrive i had lying around. i get read speeds of 1000mb/s :D

I looked at raid cards and the cheapest ones were 400 dollars in my country, so that's a no go.

thanks again