Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Posts: 2165 Location: Up to my Nipples in Alaska
Posted: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 01:46:35 Post Subject: Please pass teh magic RAID wand!!!
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.
Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 9285 Location: At the Bar
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.)
Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 20349 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:32:21 Post Subject:
Talk him into RAID 0+1!!
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...
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