New Computer Build – UPDATE! ... V3.0

[Realgun]

Re: New Computer Build – UPDATE! ... V3.0

I plan to use partitioned drives, one partition on the HDDs mirrored (RAID 1) and one partition striped (RAID 0). See the last paragraph of my first posting in this thread, up at the top. I believe this mixed RAID scenarios is what is referred to as Intel’s matrix storage technology.<br /><br />

I do not believe you can do this you have to be raid 0 or raid 1 not both.<br /><br />Thein lies your problem. Also if you are loading XP you need to hit F6 whaen it asks and load the raid drivers at that point also. This is at the beginning.<br /><br />Good luck.

 

[18rabbit]

Re: New Computer Build – UPDATE! ... V3.0

Thanks, Realgun, but that system is built and is up and running using both RAID 0 and RAID 1 partitions on the same drives. This is possible with some Intel motherboards, it’s called Intel Matrix Storage.<br /><br />My post up above on March 15th describes the steps I took to enable Intel’s Matrix Storage/multiple RAID scenarios across a pair of HDDs. F6 was just a small part of it.<br />

 

[BoatBuoy]

Re: New Computer Build – UPDATE! ... V3.0

Unless my memory is failing, you're implementing a RAID that is not fault tolerant in the RAID 0. There is no parity check and if you experience a failure on one disk, you've lost all data on that partition(550 GB or 2x275). However it is blazingly faster than other RAID's. I hope you have made accommodation for 550 GB backups.<br /><br />Either RAID-1 or RAID-5 is usually preferred for reliability.

 

[18rabbit]

Re: New Computer Build – UPDATE! ... V3.0

System files, OS, important stuff is in the smaller RAID 1 partitions. Those partitions are mirrors of each other on each HDD. The huge chunk of the remaining disk space is RAID 0, striped data. You care correct, it is not fault tolerant, but there is nothing across those partitions that is valuable, all temp data. And no, it won’t get backed up.<br /><br />RAID 5, the roaming parity, requires a minimum of 3 HDDs. I only have 2 HDDs. Same for RAID 10 (aka RAID 1+0), striping & mirroring, requires add’l HDDs that I don’t have/need.