I freaking love RAID 1!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rufio]

I had redone my entire computer system when i got a new motherboard w/built in raid!

i raided 2 WD 80GBSE drives (mirror) as my system drive

Today one of them failed.

however, all my data was there and i was able to rebuild my array!!


WOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOO RAID 1 FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Zim Hosein]

Congrats Rufio :beer:

 

[bootymac]

Build in Raid? You getting ants in your motherboard?!

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Thats great to hear! As for me, I still have an old 1GB hard drive from Western Digital back when it was just out that still works, not to mention a 5GB drive as well which is in our server and no problems.

 

[Freejack2]

Same thing but had a 60gb Maxtor and a 60gb WD. Maxtor kicked the bucket, but it was all mirrored on the WD.

 

[Rufio]

back in march i had 7 drives in my system...NO BACKUP..stupid me.

i fried 3 drives at once.

so i was so depressed i lost all my crap.

i went and bought an ASUS p4P800 motherboard because it has built in raid, and it's a kickass m/b.

now everything is on backup, and i have drives dedicated to only backing up. plus i got a sony dvdrw burner so i can back up my stuff even more....

too bad i had to loose everything to learn my lesson!

now i just have to figure out how to IMAGE my RAIDED drive.

 

[KK]

raid 5 is even better. got 5 80GB in raid 5. good performance with security.

KK

 

[Shawn]

Good to hear that your data is still there. I always hear people losing all their data when one of the drives fail and that's one of the things that kept me away from RAID.

 

[Rufio]

Originally posted by: iloveme2
Good to hear that your data is still there. I always hear people losing all their data when one of the drives fail and that's one of the things that kept me away from RAID.

well, it's not striped..it's mirrored..so that is data security in a nutshell.

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: iloveme2
Good to hear that your data is still there. I always hear people losing all their data when one of the drives fail and that's one of the things that kept me away from RAID.

Isn't RAID supposed to keep you from losing your data?
I thought that was the big advantage.

 

[nanyangview]

nah, get a seagate 15.3K cheetah = 4 IDE HD on raid

better performance, less HD heat headache, more reliablity

 

[Rufio]

Originally posted by: nanyangview
nah, get a seagate 15.3K cheetah = 4 IDE HD on raid

better performance, less HD heat headache, more reliablity

but no storage space!

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: bootymac
Build in Raid? You getting ants in your motherboard?!

did someone mention ants?

 

[simms]

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Originally posted by: iloveme2
Good to hear that your data is still there. I always hear people losing all their data when one of the drives fail and that's one of the things that kept me away from RAID.

Isn't RAID supposed to keep you from losing your data?
I thought that was the big advantage.

Depends on what type of RAID it is. RAID 0 is more for speed (striping) while RAID 1 is a duplicate on another HDD. AFAIK there's things like RAID 5 which is a combination of both requiring 4 HDDs, and I've even heard of RAID 11 and 12 (although I could be wrong).

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: simms

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Originally posted by: iloveme2
Good to hear that your data is still there. I always hear people losing all their data when one of the drives fail and that's one of the things that kept me away from RAID.

Isn't RAID supposed to keep you from losing your data?
I thought that was the big advantage.

Depends on what type of RAID it is. RAID 0 is more for speed (striping) while RAID 1 is a duplicate on another HDD. AFAIK there's things like RAID 5 which is a combination of both requiring 4 HDDs, and I've even heard of RAID 11 and 12 (although I could be wrong).

I believe there are some very high RAID levels like 37 or so?!? Can anyone confirm?

 

[Soybomb]

I lost a raid 5 array one day. A drive died, a hot spare came on line and the rebuild started automatically. Then another drive in the array died as it was rebuilding. I was very sad.

 

[nanyangview]

again, it proved the legacy of suxor IDE raid. Go SCSI

who cares if it is only 16 or 32 GB? just put ur OS and prog on it and ur ready to fly. Get 2 cheapo IDE UNRAIDED for data storage.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: simms

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Originally posted by: iloveme2
Good to hear that your data is still there. I always hear people losing all their data when one of the drives fail and that's one of the things that kept me away from RAID.

Isn't RAID supposed to keep you from losing your data?
I thought that was the big advantage.

Depends on what type of RAID it is. RAID 0 is more for speed (striping) while RAID 1 is a duplicate on another HDD. AFAIK there's things like RAID 5 which is a combination of both requiring 4 HDDs, and I've even heard of RAID 11 and 12 (although I could be wrong).

Hmm... interesting. My mobo supports it, maybe I'll try it out one day. Only problem is I got a 100GB right now which is 95% full and I'd have to get another 100GB and wouldn't be able to use any of that space. And since I'm very short on cash right now it doesn't look like it'll happen anytime soon.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

FAQ U ALL!

j/k

There is an AT FAQ and an article explaining each of these. The FAQ goes into talking about more than Raid 0,1, and 5 but thats all the article covers.

 

[Shawn]

Hmm..... could I add another 100GB sometime down the road and set up a RAID 1 array and not have to reinstall windows or anything like that?

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: simms

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Originally posted by: iloveme2
Good to hear that your data is still there. I always hear people losing all their data when one of the drives fail and that's one of the things that kept me away from RAID.

Isn't RAID supposed to keep you from losing your data?
I thought that was the big advantage.

Depends on what type of RAID it is. RAID 0 is more for speed (striping) while RAID 1 is a duplicate on another HDD. AFAIK there's things like RAID 5 which is a combination of both requiring 4 HDDs, and I've even heard of RAID 11 and 12 (although I could be wrong).

I believe there are some very high RAID levels like 37 or so?!? Can anyone confirm?

Incorrect. There are 10 levels of RAID altogether: 0-7, 10, 53. There is also a combo 0+1. Raid 1 comes in two flavors, disk mirroring (2 drives, one controller) and disk duplexing (two drives, two controllers). The reason 0,1, and 5 mentioned most often are because those three are natively supported by Windows.

RAID 5 requires 3 drives, not four.