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One of my RAID Drives went bad.

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aic

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Just got off the phone with Dell. They will send out a new drive. Is there any way to get the system up running to pull off some data?

I believe I have RAID0.
 
I would ask them to see if you can run without RAID. If not you need to invest in a External BU drive, which is a good idea regardless. RAID 0 provides no performance benefits for desktop PC's.
 
*off topic*
does your name "aic" by any chance represent alice in chains?

just curious, i am on an AIC kick lately. :thumbsup:

Oh and my recommendation is to just get a fast single drive to boot from, and a bigger regular speed drive to store most everything else (data / backup drive)
that's how I run my setup.
 
Dell sent me the wrong replacement raid drive. The drive size has to match right? My raid 0 has 160 GB and Dell sent me a Maxtor 250GB MaxLine Plus II , 7,2 K and 8MB.

Should I forgo the RAID setup and just add the drive as a 3rd drive? I have raid plus another 80 GB (separate).
 
Originally posted by: aic
Dell sent me the wrong replacement raid drive. The drive size has to match right? My raid 0 has 160 GB and Dell sent me a Maxtor 250GB MaxLine Plus II , 7,2 K and 8MB.

Should I forgo the RAID setup and just add the drive as a 3rd drive? I have raid plus another 80 GB (separate).
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After all this trouble, you still need to ask?
 
Originally posted by: powerMarkymark
Originally posted by: aic
Dell sent me the wrong replacement raid drive. The drive size has to match right? My raid 0 has 160 GB and Dell sent me a Maxtor 250GB MaxLine Plus II , 7,2 K and 8MB.

Should I forgo the RAID setup and just add the drive as a 3rd drive? I have raid plus another 80 GB (separate).
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After all this trouble, you still need to ask?
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Doh!

 
Keep the Maxline, its really top of the line stuff. If RAID is really that important, you may as well buy another 160 GB drive yourself.
 
Originally posted by: DotheDamnTHing
what about raid 1.5?
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You get RAID 0 + 1 on just 2 drives. It basically splits both drives into 4 partitions...
160GB HDa + 160GB HDb @ RAID 1.5 = 160GB total

 
Originally posted by: aic
Dell sent me the wrong replacement raid drive. The drive size has to match right? My raid 0 has 160 GB and Dell sent me a Maxtor 250GB MaxLine Plus II , 7,2 K and 8MB.

Should I forgo the RAID setup and just add the drive as a 3rd drive? I have raid plus another 80 GB (separate).
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Lose RAID, keep the Maxtor as a single drive.
 
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