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ok a little help
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15. June 2005 @ 15:11 |
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deadcat
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16. June 2005 @ 02:09 |
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to get raid you need 2+ drives (preferably same make and size). Raid 0 is what most ppl use for its speed, raid 1 is for safety. Or get 3 drives and use 0+1 if available on your mobo
For the power, use the sata power connector (most newish power supplies have 2 of these) or buy a molex to sata convertor
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16. June 2005 @ 03:13 |
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That's basically it in a nutshell, and I admire your choice of a WDC drive. Generally you will need a RAID card (PCI card in the same fashion as a 56k modem) to set it up.
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16. June 2005 @ 05:50 |
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I second that and third that!! I love my WD Raptor almost as much as my Wife!! I paid close to $180 for my single drive; waiting on more cash to buy the next one to configure Raid 0. So......
In addition, you will have to make your change in the BIOS for configuring the Raid 0 setup. It's pretty straight forward after the hardware connections, but you could also refer to your motherboard manual or hit the Vendor website for doco.
Good luck and keep us posted.
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16. June 2005 @ 08:34 |
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mmm, i'm thinking of RAIDing two 205GB Caviar SE drives (for storage capacity mainly, the speed is a bonus), but I don't know where to find a cheap S-ATA RAID card in the UK. If anyone from the UK here can tell me where I may get one cheap, that would be much appreciated. It need only be two-port, must it must be S-ATA (all my IDE channels are used up!)
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Starbuck1
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16. June 2005 @ 08:52 |
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ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe I875P
3.4 GHz Pentium 4 Northwood
1 GB Kingston
Plextor 716A Dvd-Rw
74 GB WD Raptor SATA HD@10000rpm
200 GB Maxtor HD@7200rpm
GeForce 6800 GT
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16. June 2005 @ 09:02 |
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No UK sellers there I'm afraid...
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16. June 2005 @ 13:23 |
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ok guys i dont think i need a card cause my mobo comes with 8 sata connections 1 raid1, 1 raid2, 1 raid3, 1 raid4, and 4 that can handle up to 3gb speeds that i can set to whatever
but anyway i found the install instructions and they said i can use either the sata power connection or the atx 12 volt connection but not both and to keep down on cable clutter im just goin to use the atx 12 volt one since i have a cable with two on it and i am only using one right now, if the sata connection is better please tell me and i will switch
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16. June 2005 @ 13:34 |
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...............PIO is no go, DMA all the way...............
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17. June 2005 @ 01:59 |
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"sir edward, get stuffed"
lol sammy baby...
I'll have a look at those.
I can't find out if my motherboard has integrated RAID or not because I can't access the manual from school (filtered for some reason).
It's an MS-6775 / KTM-ILS / G52-M6775X1
Manual is here: http://musaran.free.fr/MS6775.rar
If you could translate that into "does it have RAID already or do i need to get a card?" i'd much appreciate it.
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baabaa
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17. June 2005 @ 22:56 |
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...............PIO is no go, DMA all the way...............
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18. June 2005 @ 09:03 |
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wel now I'm home i can check! Lol i'll try and decipher it myself and get back to you.
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Rite ok, i see this:
"The southbridge of this mainboard is VIA VT8237 which supports two serial connectors SATA1 & SATA2.
SATA1 & SATA2 are dual high-speed Serial ATA interface ports. Each supports 1st generation serial ATA data rates of 150MB/s. Both connectors are fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications. Each Serial ATA connector can connect to 1 hard disk drvice. Please refer to Appendix B: VIA VT8237 Serial ATA RAID Introduction for detail software installation procedure."
"RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a method of combining
two or more hard disk drives into one logical unit. The advantage of an Array
is to provide better performance or data fault tolerance. Fault tolerance is
achieved through data redundant operation, where if one drives fails, a mirrored
copy of the data can be found on another drive. This can prevent data loss if
the operating system fails or hangs. The individual disk drives in an array are
called ?members?. The configuration information of each member is recorded
in the ?reserved sector? that identifies the drive as a member. All disk members
in a formed disk array are recognized as a single physical drive to the operating
system.
Hard disk drives can be combined together through a few different
methods. The different methods are referred to as different RAID levels.
Different RAID levels represent different performance levels, security levels
and implementation costs. The RAID levels which the VIA VT8237 SATA
RAID Host Controller supports are RAID 0 and RAID 1. The table below
briefly introduced these RAID levels.
RAID Level No. of Drives Capacity Benefits
RAID 0
(Striping)
2 Number drives * 2 Highest performance without data
protection
RAID 1
(Mirroring)
2 Smallest size Data protection
VIA VT8237 Serial ATA RAID Introduction
B-3
RAID 0 (Striping)
RAID 0 reads and writes sectors of data interleaved between multiple
drives. If any disk member fails, it affects the entire array. The disk array data
capacity is equal to the number of drive members times the capacity of the
smallest member. The striping block size can be set from 4KB to 64KB. RAID
0 does not support fault tolerance.
RAID 1 (Mirroring)
RAID 1 writes duplicate data onto a pair of drives and reads both sets of
data in parallel. If one of the mirrored drives suffers a mechanical failure or
does not respond, the remaining drive will continue to function. Due to
redundancy, the drive capacity of the array is the capacity of the smallest
drive. Under a RAID 1 setup, an extra drive called the .spare drive. can be
attached. Such a drive will be activated to replace a failed drive that is part of
a mirrored array. Due to the fault tolerance, if any RAID 1 drive fails, data
access will not be affected as long as there are other working drives in the
array."
I assume this means that my mobo will support RAID without additional gubbins yes?
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baabaa
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18. June 2005 @ 09:13 |
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It appears so.
When you boot up, go into the CMOS and check there.
There will be a setting in there relating to RAID - enabling the SATA
Then when you boot, you should receive some more instructions after the main POST - that should be the RAID configuration information from the SATA Controller ROM onboard....................
...............PIO is no go, DMA all the way...............
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18. June 2005 @ 13:56 |
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Cheers, that should save me much hassle, and money!
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