Please pass teh magic RAID wand!!!

Spire

I'm not sure who has it right now, but I could sure use it!!!

I built a guy a real nice machine 2 years ago and RAID 0'ed a pair of 100 gig WDSE's. Been working like a champ. Took him his new 3000+ NEO 2, X800 PRO gaming machine today and right in front of my eyes, Winblows came up with:

"can't friggin write to C:\system volume information\blah\blah\yourso\screwed\quitwhining\true.dat"

Well the 5 or so messages cleared and I went on to do some checking. Finished and rebooted to:

(not quoted for accuracy)

ARRAY BORKED!!! flashing

ARRAY 1 200 gig is toast
ARRAY 2 100 gig is offline

Soooooo... Since this is now his business machine, I'll stick the drives (if they still work) in RAID 1.

T-shirt · Posted: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 07:29:16 Post Subject:

running raid 0 as the primary drives for business is not a good idea (unless you have a substancial backup system and spares on hand)

BeerCheeze · Posted: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 11:27:35 Post Subject:

Yea, I gotta agree with T-Shirt. RAID 0 is just for performance, and not a good thing on a machine that holds important info. It's actually better to use JOBD if you want the storage room... at least then you stand a chance of getting data if a HDD goes belly up.

RAID 1 is best option though... Any drive head south to be Jose's cabana boy and your not borked. (And while being borked SOUNDS like fun, it's not all that much fun.)

Spire · Posted: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:26:36 Post Subject:

The RAID 0 machine has been his gaming machine for the last two years.

Now that I built him a new gamer, it will become his business machine.

His old P4 business machine is being put out to pasture.

I JUST backed up all of his now dead RAID 0 files a week ago!!!

However, his wife dumped all thier Virgin Islands cruise pics on the machine after I backed it up... so they are gone.

His response to that was... "Guess I'll have to go back and get some new pics!!!"

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:32:21 Post Subject:

Talk him into RAID 0+1!! Grin

I may take the one 40GB drive out of my HTPC (needs more room for DiVX), and then I'll be able to do it on my A64 system, which has 2 40GB in RAID 1, and one spare 40GB ready for hot swapping...

Spire · Posted: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:52:27 Post Subject:

I AM THE KEEPER OF THE MAGIC RAID WAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I deleted all the bogus arrays, recreated a new Stripe array just to see if I could salvage the Carribean Pics.

IT WORKED!!!!!!!!! The machne booted like normal. Must have been something to do with a corrupted MBR on one of the drives.

Pics and data saved, time to change to a Mirror setup.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:36:51 Post Subject:

SWEEEEEEET!!

trekrider · Posted: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 19:00:48 Post Subject: