PigDog Posted December 2, 2011 Member ID: 222 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 88 Topic Count: 331 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 3846 Content Per Day: 0.72 Reputation: 1626 Achievement Points: 25628 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 24 Birthday: 02/05/1968 Device: Windows Share Posted December 2, 2011 OK, so I have most of the parts for my new PC. I would like to set it up in a RAID format - I can't remember if it is RAID 0 or RAID 1, but it is NOT the striped one, it is the where one drive is a mirror of the other. I know my mobo supports RAID. How do I get it set up ? I will be loading Windows 7 Pro on a 90 GB SSD drive and then I want 2 1 TB drives that are mirrored. Can I do it that way? And how ??? Help!! And Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Blackbart Posted December 2, 2011 Member ID: 51 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 342 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5974 Content Per Day: 1.12 Reputation: 3766 Achievement Points: 45818 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 06/26/1949 Share Posted December 2, 2011 You are wanting RAID 1...I can't help you with setting it up but someone will be along to help I'm sure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sun Tzu Posted December 2, 2011 Member ID: 542 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 5 Topic Count: 311 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 1628 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 29 Achievement Points: 11299 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/30/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 3, 2014 Birthday: 03/01/1975 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun Tzu Posted December 2, 2011 Member ID: 542 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 5 Topic Count: 311 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 1628 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 29 Achievement Points: 11299 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/30/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 3, 2014 Birthday: 03/01/1975 Share Posted December 2, 2011 It really depends on the motherboard's hardware RAID. A lot of cheaper (read: no-server) motherboards require you to install software RAID drivers within Windows anyway. Also, a hardware RAID will be handled using your motherboard, and therefore can become tied to your motherboard. If your concerned about the stability of your motherboard already, I would avoid its RAID like the plague. In this circumstance, unless your motherboard has actual hardware RAID (not the standard fake hardware RAID) you are much better off sticking with Windows 7 RAID. Even when considering pure hardware RAID vs. software RAID there are trade-offs with each system, and IMO hardware RAID is only necessary in a production environment. I could help here - I've been on the phone with Microsoft's support people and the Western Digital people. I just purchased two 1 TB drives as I wanted some assurance (due to my backup lazines) that my data would be replicated/backed up with minimal interference. Well... this is what I know: You can setup mirroring to happen (which is like RAID 1) but not really by doing the following - with a pitfall. You have to install Windows 7 in order to mirror - so given that you have done that I typically like to partition off my disk 0 into a C and D where C is for OS stuff and programs and D is for data. Each drive disk 0 and 1 must be set to Dynamic. (DO NOT format disk 1 - leave it unformatted - otherwise the next step will not work). Right click on drive D from disk 0 and left click on Add Mirror - when you do this you will see disk 1 appear and click on it. The software found disk 1 as it is completely unallocated and see's it as a free drive to mirror on. Click OK and in a few moments you will see the same drive space allocated for disk 0 drive D on disk 1 and it names it the same - drive D and resynchronising with a percentage showing progress. This can take some time even with no data to synchronise. When the resynchronising is complete - no further action is needed - except you might have to rescan the drive by left clicking it and choosing Action from the menu then Scan Disks - takes just a moment and you're done. The ONLY problem is - you can't mirror disk 0 - drive C! I'm so frustrated - it attempts it, but gets only so far and then you get a failure message on the disk 0 area and sometimes you get Virtual Disk Manager Error "No Extents Were Found For The Plex". What is the matter with that?! I have tried researching and perhaps not enough but neither Microsoft or Western Digital could help me. They don't know what it means and perhaps Windows 7 is not quite ready yet to take advantage of the driving mirroring capabilities. How to get around this? - I would really appreciate knowing how you did it! Please email me at [email protected]. That's all I got - took me antire day working with Microsoft an Western Digital do get this information I found this on a site may help you may not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaptCrunch Posted December 4, 2011 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 45 Topic Count: 295 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4468 Content Per Day: 0.84 Reputation: 3628 Achievement Points: 36501 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 39 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted December 4, 2011 yes first up date to current bios for your MB then get hardware drivers that are WHQD appoved for your OS 32 or 64 bit? lan, sound, usb, graphics, chipset, raid software (F6 option) and put them on a stick or optical disk for later in bios set to raid and have optical boot first, then reboot put win7 in drive hit F6 to install drivers when asks then put in your disk made prior note: raid is really for protection of data loss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Nobodygood>XI< Posted December 8, 2011 Member ID: 219 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 15 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 492 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 108 Achievement Points: 2906 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 2, 2018 Birthday: 04/28/1957 Share Posted December 8, 2011 hmm let us buy 3 SAS drives (15000 RPM), a controler and run RAID 5 WEEEEEE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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