Thanks Madwand, I was hoping to find someone that had tried to move the array (or had a board die). I think a NAS is in my future... this whole experience had been irritatingly painful despite the fact that my most important information was backed up.
Thanks FC. I just read a review featuring that Areca, that seems like a pretty powerful piece of hardware-- but dang... $529??? Eeek!
I found the whole thing with the RAID scaling to be interesting.
What I find annoying is the vendors who build the product don't know the answer. Both BFG who make the motherboard and nVidia who make the chipset can't (or haven't to this point) given me an answer. It boggles my mind... there's no way that someone hasn't had a board go down with a RAID array...
Thanks, I have this same question submitted to nVidia... they immediately referred the answer to a level 2 tech... so I guess even the newbie techs don't know. I have yet to hear from level 2 what the scoop is and how difficult it is to recover in the case of a mainboard failure.
I recently had a drive in 2 drive RAID 0 die and take all 700 GB of data with it. I am considering rebuilding my machine and adding 1 or 2 drives to do either RAID 5 or RAID 0+1, or possibly just mirror the volumes independently.
I have a BFG 680i motherboard that uses the Mediashield...
I recently had a drive in 2 drive RAID 0 die and take all 700 GB of data with it. I am considering rebuilding my machine and adding 1 or 2 drives to do either RAID 5 or RAID 0+1, or possibly just mirror the volumes independently.
I have a BFG 680i motherboard that uses the Mediashield...
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