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Posted by Aussie Paladin on March 18, 2007, 6:59 pm
Please log in for more thread options RAID Setup help needed. Going to take the plunge and Raid two 400 Gig Samsugn SATA 2 drives, or at least try to. I want to use the system mainly for destop USE, but also play some games and do some Video Editing with BIG HD 1080i .ts video files and the like. I have never raided anythign before , So please be gentle. My Mobo Is a Gigabyte GA-965p-DS3. Any mor einfo you need just ask :) Thanks if you can give me some pointers. Thanks. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by John Weiss on March 18, 2007, 7:36 pm
Please log in for more thread options First, WHY do you want RAID? Do a bit of research and at least find out the difference between RAID 0 and RAID 1 (the only modes applicable to 2 HDs) before you go any further. You may find out it won't do what you want... | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by kony on March 19, 2007, 4:46 am
Please log in for more thread options On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:59:22 +1100, Aussie Paladin <Aussie
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>RAID Setup help needed. > >Going to take the plunge and Raid two 400 Gig Samsugn SATA 2 drives, >or at least try to. > >I want to use the system mainly for destop USE, but also play some >games and do some Video Editing with BIG HD 1080i .ts video files and >the like. > Then don't use RAID, keep the two drives seperate so when video editing, you have one drive as the video source and the other as destination... or if mixing tracks, these from separate drives. Remember that RAID benchmarks well but that doesn't translate directly to particular tasks. >
>I have never raided anythign before , So please be gentle. > >My Mobo Is a Gigabyte GA-965p-DS3. Any mor einfo you need just ask :) > >Thanks if you can give me some pointers. I suggest an online tutorial, Google will find some. You should not trust your data to only the amount of information that participants in a usenet forum were willing to repeat for the (n)th time... you'll end up getting the abbreviated version of everything because the work to be through on our part is greater than the work for you to do a web or usenet search for the information. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Ed Medlin on March 19, 2007, 10:34 am
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> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:59:22 +1100, Aussie Paladin <Aussie
> Paladin> wrote: > >>
>>RAID Setup help needed. >> >>Going to take the plunge and Raid two 400 Gig Samsugn SATA 2 drives, >>or at least try to. >> >>I want to use the system mainly for destop USE, but also play some >>games and do some Video Editing with BIG HD 1080i .ts video files and >>the like. >> >
> Then don't use RAID, keep the two drives seperate so when > video editing, you have one drive as the video source and > the other as destination... or if mixing tracks, these from > separate drives. Remember that RAID benchmarks well but > that doesn't translate directly to particular tasks. > Very true. If video editing with two drives, keeping them as seperate drives is best. If you have four drives, then RAID-0 would be the way to go with two arrays using one array as source and another as destination. Writing back to a single drive or RAID array does not give anywhere near the performance as two seperate drives/arrays. I would not reccomend any striped array (raid-0) for storage of critical data. Ed | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Jeff on March 19, 2007, 9:36 pm
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<Aussie Paladin> wrote in message
> I have never raided anythign before , So please be gentle.
> > My Mobo Is a Gigabyte GA-965p-DS3. Any mor einfo you need just ask :) > > Thanks if you can give me some pointers. First, look at the manual. Then, poke around in the bios. I'm a bit new to raid myself, but just set up two different raid systems on 2 machines run from the motherboards along with one on a high-end hardware (PCIe) controller. Both required that the drives be enabled in the bios for raid use, and then the raid array had to be configured in a separate raid configuration utility that is tied to the motherboard's raid controller. To enter that, you usually push some key combination F4, etc, after the bios loads. The drives that you've enabled for raid use in the bios should then appear in the raid utility able to be added to the raid array. You then generally specify the type of array and which drives to include - within that raid utility. Sometimes there is an option to make the array bootable. ...going back into the bios afterward, should show the new array as a single bootable drive. You might then have to alter the boot order to make sure that the array is in the right location in that boot order. When loading the OS, Windows will ask almost immediately if you wish to load 3rd party scsi or raid controllers, and if so, hit F6. You have something like 6 seconds to do so. If you miss that opportunity, you will have to wait for a few minutes until windows reports that it can't find any drives. ...then start over and make sure you hit F6 quickly. You should have already have created a driver disk onto a floppy using whatever procedure is specified in your manual - usually simply running a utility on the MB driver CD. From what I gather, Vista can load these drivers from something other than a floppy, but XP and below still require the driver on a floppy. Windows eventually prompts you to load the driver, and from at tpoint all proceeds normally. The above assumes that you are speaking about running the raid from the motherboard rather than from the OS. ...you can't run a bootable raid from the OS, however. Keep in mind that some boards support more than a single raid system - I was confused about this on my asus board, that had both silicon image and Nvidia raid controllers. I was attempting to load the driver for the SI raid while I had configured the Nvidia raid. I'm not positive, but I think that Gigabtye has a single raid system, but that only some of the sata connections can be used for that raid setup. After you have the machine running, most raid systems have yet another utility that loads into the OS that provides information about the health of the array. e.g., whether both drives are still functioning in a mirror, etc. The higher end systems on hardware cards sometimes provide additional features like email notification if any of the drives go bad (e.g., my Adaptec PCIe hardware controller will perform this function, while some of the motherboard based systems will not) Jeff -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com | |||||||||||||||||||
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> RAID Setup help needed.
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> Going to take the plunge and Raid two 400 Gig Samsugn SATA 2 drives,
> or at least try to.
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> I want to use the system mainly for destop USE, but also play some
> games and do some Video Editing with BIG HD 1080i .ts video files and
> the like.
>
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> I have never raided anythign before , So please be gentle.