SATA Raid

[oldman420]

I have 2 500 GB hdds that I want to put into a raid 1 in my system.
I have an Asus M2N-SLI deluxe board I will be using to build the raid.
back in the olden days my Asus an78x board had bigtime raid curuption issues and I lost a lot of data, is it now safe to run your system as a raid one setup without the risk?

 

[lxskllr]

There's always risk. Plenty of people run RAID without issue, I'm not one of them though. I don't see enough benefit in using RAID arrays, to make up for the added complexity, and hassle. I assume you want to use RAID1 for a kind of backup system? I think you'd be better off backing data up to an external hd on a regular basis.

 

[Blain]

Your definition of "Safe" is?

 

[Schadenfroh]

Raid 1 is safe, raid 0 on the other hand.....

 

[Madwand1]

No, no RAID alone is "safe", regardless of the quality of the implementation.

Backup + RAID > backup > RAID.

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: Madwand1
No, no RAID alone is "safe", regardless of the quality of the implementation.

Backup + RAID > backup > RAID.

Agreed.

 

[oldman420]

gotcha I guess I will just have 2 500 gig drives and be happy with that.
thanks so much fellas

 

[Roguestar]

Originally posted by: Madwand1
No, no RAID alone is "safe", regardless of the quality of the implementation.

Backup + RAID > backup > RAID.

Definitely. RAID 1 isn't for backup, it's for when you need an immediate hot-swap because one drive died. You should always still have a backup plan.