Re: Raid Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Michael_Knight Raid 0 is basically for [B]Striping[/B], and is usually for 2 HDD's There are at least nine types of [B]RAID [/B]plus a non-redundant array (RAID-0): [LIST] [*][B]RAID-0[/B]: This technique has striping but no redundancy of data. It offers the best performance but no fault-tolerance. [*][B]RAID-1[/B]: This type is also known as disk mirroring and… Re: Raid-What it is and how it works Hardware and Software Hardware by SaintThomas RAID, is "Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks" it's technology provides increased storage reliability with redundancy, combining multiple relatively low-cost, less-reliable disk drives components into a logical unit where all drives in the array are interdependent. If your mother board has been Raid Driver for HDD than you must … Re: Raid-What it is and how it works Hardware and Software Hardware by 07knev RAID 5 is very secured and fail over disk rate is very less. Re: RAID Failure, Need Advice for next steps Hardware and Software Hardware by rubberman RAID just protects from drive failure. Not controller failure, unless you also have redundant controllers! In any case, RAID-1 is just mirroring - no redundancy. You have two drives with the same data. If one failes, the other contains the data. However, some other types of problems can corrupt both drives. RAID-5 is better, since it incorporates … Re: Raid Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by forumdude123 [QUOTE=Michael_Knight;531998]Raid 0 is basically for [B]Striping[/B], and is usually for 2 HDD's There are at least nine types of [B]RAID [/B]plus a non-redundant array (RAID-0): [LIST] [*][B]RAID-0[/B]: This technique has striping but no redundancy of data. It offers the best performance but no fault-tolerance. [*][B]RAID-1[/B]: This type … Raid Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by forumdude123 Can i run 3 hard drives in RAID0? what is the difference between raid 0+1 and raid 1+0. Can someone please explain this clearly, because the websites make it difficult to understand??!! Raid-What it is and how it works Hardware and Software Hardware by Teachingmyself [b][u]Explanation of RAID and installation guide[/u][/b] [i]Thanks to [b]'Stein[/b] for the coding.[/i] Greetings, It's come to my attention, both from call volume in work and online forums, that most people do not realize the diversity of RAID controllers available, nor how to fully benefit from them. This tutorial aims to explain in simple … Re: Raid-What it is and how it works Hardware and Software Hardware by pintree3 Excuse my ignorance but I feel the question "What is it?" is not answered--or at least not completely for I fail to still know what it is. Is it a physical device that u can buy and plug into your mother board install, is it software? In my BIOS, RAID is disabled, hence my interest in reading this since I saw the term many times. … Re: Raid-What it is and how it works Hardware and Software Hardware by articles See this also; [URL]http://www.ezinearticles.com/?RAID---Use-Of-Multiple-Hard-Drives-For-High-Storage-And-Reliability&id=416852[/URL] I also tried to explain RAID and its advantages, disadvantages. Teachingmyself, a good article indeed. It explains the technical aspects about working process of different levels of RAID effectively. … Re: Raid-What it is and how it works Hardware and Software Hardware by jbennet [quote] RAID originally stood for "redundant array of independent disks," but you may also see the phrase "redundant array of inexpensive disks [/quote] My server from ~1996 uses the second definition. Re: Raid-What it is and how it works Hardware and Software Hardware by hughv But, realistically: "Why RAID is (usually) a Terrible Idea" [url]http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles.php?id=29[/url] This will make more sense when you've had a couple of RAID failures, as I have. Re: Raid-What it is and how it works Hardware and Software Hardware by Gerryx1 Yea, the article from Pugetsys certainly reinforces the notion that Raid is not the 'bees' knees' of happy HD usage. Your input suggests tha you've had probs with it. I had considered it as a mean of finding my 'missing drv but, Gigabyte sprt. warned me that there might be issues especially when mixing Sata1 board and Sata2 drv. The other … Re: Raid-What it is and how it works Hardware and Software Hardware by jbennet I got SCSI RAID (Raid level 1 - Mirroring) on my server and it works good. Handy as all the drives are hotswap and on rails. Makes for minumum downtime. i still backup very regularly to tape and dvds of course. Re: Raid-What it is and how it works Hardware and Software Hardware by Gerryx1 I had a SCSI Barracuda drive a few years ago and it was a flyer, so, if you could get a Raid SCSI setup going, as you have, i could imagine it would be something. Isn't a server a pc setup where a central pc controls/communicates with a number of others? Re: Raid-What it is and how it works Hardware and Software Hardware by jbennet yup downtime = -$$$$$ Thats why servers generally have lots of hotswappable raid-ed disks and regularly back up Re: Raid-What it is and how it works Hardware and Software Hardware by Gerryx1 [QUOTE=jbennet;816195]yup downtime = -$$$$$ Thats why servers generally have lots of hotswappable raid-ed disks and regularly back up[/QUOTE] Hot-swapping Raid..sounds good. So, with a Raid 1 mirroiing setup, you're guaranteed 24/7/365 uptime with your server. That's a neat trick, where, because all the server data is mirrored onto … Re: Raid-What it is and how it works Hardware and Software Hardware by Gerryx1 [QUOTE=jbennet;817432]by disk i mean HDD Hard[B] Disk[/B] drive[/QUOTE] Then, it would seem that Raid is a really a super idea for businesses and large establishments but, maybe not for the home user. Re: Raid-What it is and how it works Hardware and Software Hardware by Tommy Silver you can also watch a visual scheme for better understanding : [url]http://raid-recovery-online.com/raid_0_recovery/[/url] [url]http://raid-recovery-online.com/raid_1_recovery/[/url] [url]http://raid-recovery-online.com/raid_5_recovery/[/url] [url]http://raid-recovery-online.com/raid_6_recovery/[/url] Re: Raid-What it is and how it works Hardware and Software Hardware by magicram1 Like the way you describe about RAID and How it works. Re: Raid-What it is and how it works Hardware and Software Hardware by kaleidonet An excellent piece of writing about RAID i could find ever... Re: Raid-What it is and how it works Hardware and Software Hardware by somjit{} [QUOTE]Battery backup - Prevents losing the data stored in the RAID cache (short term memory) in the event of a power cut. If a battery isn't installed anything not yet written to the physical hard drive will be lost. [/QUOTE] if i have a ups, then will that do the work that a battery backup is/was supposed to do? RAID is dead, all hail the storage robot Hardware and Software Networking by happygeek I have been a supporter of RAID for the longest time; after all it would be crazy not to like something that brings efficiency and protection to the data storage process. RAID has certainly provided both, but that was then and this is now, and it is time for RAID to step down and let a new storage king be crowned. Without turning this into a huge … Re: RAID is dead, all hail the storage robot Hardware and Software Networking by blud I can't see 'Home Server' having IIS7, since there really isn't much use for a web server in a person's home, but it may be an addon option. LVM and RAID do seperate things, so this really isn't going to affect raid, it will actually make more use of it on home systems. RAID however will still live strong in the industry though, it takes YEARS for … RAID, Ubuntu, SATA Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by merly Hello, I would be grateful for information regarding RAID and Ubuntu about hardware. I want to build a computer that will be a Ubuntu computer with hot swap RAID 1 using SATA 2 (3Gb/s) hard disk drives. 1. Can I just get two SATA hard disk drives, install them in a caddy (for example a SATA 2 version of [URL="http://myahead.com/go/look/… Re: RAID Failure, Need Advice for next steps Hardware and Software Hardware by scrapple [QUOTE=rubberman;1530377]RAID just protects from drive failure. Not controller failure, unless you also have redundant controllers! In any case, RAID-1 is just mirroring - no redundancy. You have two drives with the same data. If one failes, the other contains the data. However, some other types of problems can corrupt both drives. RAID-5 is better… RAID Failure, Need Advice for next steps Hardware and Software Hardware by scrapple Hi, I had a catastrophic RAID failure and was hoping for some advice on next steps. A couple of years ago, I purchased an Addonics mini-tower with a built-in hardware raid controller and filled it with hard drives and set it up as a RAID 1 array. I used this as my primary backup device for all of our home computers, and was quite happy for a … Re: RAID Failure, Need Advice for next steps Hardware and Software Hardware by rubberman Sorry to take so long to get back to you on this... :-) Not to delve too deeply into fault-tolerant computing architectures, to my mind, RAID is primarily intended to provide a higher degree of fault-resiliance than just a bunch of discs (JBOD), but it will not guarantee that all failure scenarios will leave your data intact. In you have JBOD, … RAID 1 how to separate data and move to the RAID Hardware and Software Hardware by ggeoff Hi I have set up a RAID 1 and want to move my data to the RAID and leave applications and the operating system on the non raid drive. I just copied My Documents to the RAID and did a backup before deleting My Documents from the non raid disk. I found that my documents couldn't be found by my applications and found this article: [ Click Here](http… RAID 0 config, new motherboard Hardware and Software Hardware by marinme So.. my old motherboard died on me after a couple of years of good service and I had to buy a new one. Old board was a MSI K7N2-Delta2-LSR([url=http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&prod_no=596&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=&cat3_no=]link[/url]) with a nvidia nforce 2 RAID MCP raid controller on it. I had two sata drives running … Re: RAID, Ubuntu, SATA Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by DimaYasny should work. not sure about the HOTswap, but the usual raid1 functionality and redundancy are present. btw linux software raid is very easy to manage through webmin