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Setting up Raid

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by wolfsta, 2005/07/20.

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  1. 2005/07/20
    wolfsta

    wolfsta Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi all..

    I have a Win2k3 server and I'm looking at putting raid into it... It is a PX865PE Pro II Motherboard... Has onboard SATA Raid 0 and IDE Raid 0 and 1.

    At the moment it has one SATA Drive, and i want to setup Raid 1.. so i guess im asking for the steps to do this..

    My guess is this:

    1 buy two IDE drives the same

    2 put them both in remove sata

    3 setup raid 1 on the ide drives

    4 put sata back in

    4 image sata drive over to one of the ide drives

    5 remove sata drive

    Havent done raid before.. so im probably missing something somewhere... or maybe a better way.. or some pitfalls to watch out for... or totally wrong lol :p

    Any advice tips much appreciated.

    Cheers

    Wolfsta :)
     
  2. 2005/07/20
    Scott Smith

    Scott Smith Inactive Alumni

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    Just my opinion but since Im putting it out here I'm sure there will be others. :D

    If this is a critical server RAID 1 is of very little benifit. Rarely when a RAID 1 goes down is it usable because they are on the same controller.

    If this is a critical server go with a Hardware Multi Channel RAID 5 card.

    Some good ones are Promise and 3Ware.
    RAID 5 takes a minimum of 3 drives in it's normal state. If one drive fails the array will continue to function until the bad drive is replaced.
    Typically on Critical Servers a RAID 5 Array with a Hot Swap is used.
    If this is something your interested in doing let me know and I will point you toward the hardware and instructions for setting it up.

    Here is a Dell Server I converted to a RAID 5 with a 3 Ware Escalade Card on a 64 Bit PCI bus with 4 SATA 120 Gig drives Click

    PS Real RAID cards have onboard RAM also.
     

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