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Continue using mobo raid, or go internal card?

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Greetings,

So i'm pretty new to raid, I know how to use and such and am currently using it on my Asus mobo. 2 1.5TB's in Raid 1. Like I said i'm currently using mobo onboard raid to do this. My concern is what do I do if one HD dies? Asus uses this software called Raid xpert or something which isn't the best, and I've heard it's hard to rebuild arrays if one HD crashes.

Also I prefer some good software that will allow you to check the health of the array, and each HD and that's user friendly. Anyways I'm wondering if there are any good PCI cards that I can get to accomplish this, that comes with good software and is user friendly. I plan on setting up another 2TB Raid 1 array very soon. Please advise guys.
 
Use backups instead of RAID1. RAID1 is no backup, no RAID is.

Just buy an external 2TB disk and duplicate your important data on there. Then you can use RAID0 or just a fast single disk without resorting to redundancy.
 
good pci cards actually do scrubbing when not busy (unless forced into a power save mode to spin down disks). so say after 3 seconds of nothing - start scrubbing away. it keeps track of where so it can keep going and going even if you reboot/power loss.

intel's old ich7R had this feature you could tell it to do a surface analysis and it would always find a few things. this may have been taken away because it exposed the flaw that holes exist always in sata raid and the larger they get the more often they exist than not.
 
HDTune looks cool, i'll use that to monitor my disks. Will it know there is an array though and to analyze each disk independently?

As far as using external backups, that's not something I want to do. I already have a lanky HTPC downstairs in the living, and don't want more external compnents.

Also what do you mean Raid 1 isn't a backup? It most certainly is, isn't it?

So back to the original question, is there a good card I can use with good software incase HD crashes?
 
TTT!

Still looking for a good raid card with easy to use/setup software and is easy to rebuild an array if one HD fails.

Also not sure what was meant by Raid1 isn't backup.
 
3ware, now LSI has very good cards with excellent software. I use 9650 8MPL and it's been running like a champ for years now.
 
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