Hi,
I am planning to gradually build a 4-drive RAID5 array on Intel Matrix RAID chipset available on P5B-E m/b. By 'gradually' I mean buying one HD at a time until I hit a limit of 4HDs. I already purchased first HD (a WD 500GB model WD5000AAKS) and plan on buying ~ one per month.
The manual is very vague about the ability of this specific chipset to build up RAID without losing any data already stored on HDs.
I would like to get opinions of users who have this (or similar) m/b and already created their RAID5 arrays on what their experience was in doing so.
- First of all, do I need to declare my first HD as RAID right away or keep it as IDE until I get a second HD?
- Can I change from IDE to RAID without losing data already on disk?
- Once I get a second HD, can I already set a RAID5 or is it only available with 3+ drives?
- Can I add new drive to already existing array?
Cheers,
netscorer.
I am planning to gradually build a 4-drive RAID5 array on Intel Matrix RAID chipset available on P5B-E m/b. By 'gradually' I mean buying one HD at a time until I hit a limit of 4HDs. I already purchased first HD (a WD 500GB model WD5000AAKS) and plan on buying ~ one per month.
The manual is very vague about the ability of this specific chipset to build up RAID without losing any data already stored on HDs.
I would like to get opinions of users who have this (or similar) m/b and already created their RAID5 arrays on what their experience was in doing so.
- First of all, do I need to declare my first HD as RAID right away or keep it as IDE until I get a second HD?
- Can I change from IDE to RAID without losing data already on disk?
- Once I get a second HD, can I already set a RAID5 or is it only available with 3+ drives?
- Can I add new drive to already existing array?
Cheers,
netscorer.