RAID 0 array problem

lovely?

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I ordered two Western digital 'Black' 500gb hard drives off of newegg, in hopes of putting them in RAID 0. i have a raid controller, the P5K Deluxe i am using has one in the south bridge i believe...

anyways, i change my SATA settings in my bios to RAID instead of IDE, and restart the PC. after the bios, a screen comes up with my hard drives and says ctrl-I to set up RAID. i do that, and set the RAID array. then, when the computer actually starts loading, it does a really fast BSOD (too fast to read) and restarts... if i try safe mode i see that the computer freezes and then BSOD's right after loading crcdisk.sys...

i have noticed that i can take the RAID array away and still bootup using RAID instead of IDE SATA settings, but it will still BSOD. so its not the actual array screwing up, its something to do with RAID over IDE i think.....


HELP!
 
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well, press f8 during boot, and turn off auto reboot ... and wait for the BSOD.

you have windows loaded alread ... and you changed the sata mode from ATA to Enhanced? Yes it will bluescreen .. you did not load the enhanced raid drivers during windows setup (f6)

No way around it other then doing a windows repair, or a baremetal backup / restore

You cant just change the pc from ATA to SATA enhanced and have it boot up.
This is completely normal.
 
lovely? said:
I ordered two Western digital 'Black' 500gb hard drives off of newegg, in hopes of putting them in RAID 0. i have a raid controller, the P5K Deluxe i am using has one in the south bridge i believe...

anyways, i change my SATA settings in my bios to RAID instead of IDE, and restart the PC. after the bios, a screen comes up with my hard drives and says ctrl-I to set up RAID. i do that, and set the RAID array. then, when the computer actually starts loading, it does a really fast BSOD (too fast to read) and restarts... if i try safe mode i see that the computer freezes and then BSOD's right after loading crcdisk.sys...

i have noticed that i can take the RAID array away and still bootup using RAID instead of IDE SATA settings, but it will still BSOD. so its not the actual array screwing up, its something to do with RAID over IDE i think.....


HELP!
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you'll need to reintsall everything after you set up the array!
 
ya for raid 0, but not with raid 1 :P With raid one you can push the good copy over to the other disk.

But he is using raid 0, he should get used to reinstalling. Raid 0 has NO fault tolarance ... I would strongly advise you to do raid 1 .. unless you like loosing data.
A loss of any disk in a raid 0 array will cause your data to be lost
 
bilbus said:
ya for raid 0, but not with raid 1 :P With raid one you can push the good copy over to the other disk.

But he is using raid 0, he should get used to reinstalling. Raid 0 has NO fault tolarance ... I would strongly advise you to do raid 1 .. unless you like loosing data.
A loss of any disk in a raid 0 array will cause your data to be lost
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he said he was using raid 0 :)
never really saw why anyone would raid 0, so little performance improvement
 
Matt, as APJ said you need to reinstall Windows and all your programs after setting up a RAID 0 array, otherwise you will get a BSOD.

@APJ, I actually noticed quite a bump in read/write speeds when transferring large files using RAID 0.
 
@APJ, I actually noticed quite a bump in read/write speeds when transferring large files using RAID 0.
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Which you should, but for any other use it basically does nothing. There are some good cases for RAID0 but so many bad ones :P
 
Cromewell said:
Which you should, but for any other use it basically does nothing. There are some good cases for RAID0 but so many bad ones :P
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Would a good case of RAID 0 be if I was trying to copy all of my favorite photos of Bender from one computer to another while simultaneously creating a feature length film during dinner?
 
where to begin.....

the array is two seperate drives from my boot drive, do i still have to reinstall? because my windows disk has gone MIA.

i will be using this array a few different ways. to decrease game load times, to do a lot of photoshop work, to transfer files (all larger then 1gb). i decided on RAID 0 because i needed the space, and two 500gb drives cost just a little more then a 1tb drive, so why not get them and run them twice as fast?
 
Would a good case of RAID 0 be if I was trying to copy all of my favorite photos of Bender from one computer to another while simultaneously creating a feature length film during dinner?
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Only if the photos were ultra high res :P

the array is two seperate drives from my boot drive, do i still have to reinstall? because my windows disk has gone MIA.
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Is your windows drive connected to a SATA port that connects to the onboard RAID controller? If so, that's bad ;)
 
I believe that if you have the RAID array AND your primary hard drive on the same controller, even if one isn't in RAID then that would be causing your problems. I'm trying to remember, but doesn't the P5K have two SATA controllers (different colored ports)?
 
how so?

im trying to keep my 320gb hd as my boot drive, and just use the array for storage purposes. your saying that just the fact that all three are SATA is screwing me over?
 
lovely? said:
how so?

im trying to keep my 320gb hd as my boot drive, and just use the array for storage purposes. your saying that just the fact that all three are SATA is screwing me over?
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Re-read my post, if the P5K has two SATA controllers then you should be able to connect your master drive with the OS on the second controller, and it shouldn't be an issue. If memory serves me right the P5K has two orange SATA ports in addition to the 6 red ports.
 
I believe that if you have the RAID array AND your primary hard drive on the same controller, even if one isn't in RAID then that would be causing your problems.
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Yes it would be, that's what I was saying in my post. I guess I should explain it a little. Basically, when you set your controller to RAID mode the driver windows uses to access the hard drives changes. This is a problem for your bootdrive. Moving the drive to your other controller (I think all new intel based boards have 2 sata controllers, 1 in the southbridge and 1 in an ite/jmicron/other provider that also does the 1 IDE port).
 
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Re-read my post, if the P5K has two SATA controllers then you should be able to connect your master drive with the OS on the second controller, and it shouldn't be an issue. If memory serves me right the P5K has two orange SATA ports in addition to the 6 red ports.
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it does have two black ports along with five red ones. will that make a difference? i never knew what those were for.
 
still no luck. i am working on downloading and booting from a vista repair console. that might do it right?
 
well i tried the windows recovery disk. it all loaded fine, the repairs seemed to be working, (it took about an hour and a half to do the repairs) but when i restarted my PC it still wouldnt boot.
 
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Would a good case of RAID 0 be if I was trying to copy all of my favorite photos of Bender from one computer to another while simultaneously creating a feature length film during dinner?
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No RAID 0 only improves data throughput, it does nothing for multi tasking. If you are reading/writing a ton of large files at once RAID 0 can show up to 40% performance increases, in everything else its so minimal you won't notice it.
 
tlarkin said:
No RAID 0 only improves data throughput, it does nothing for multi tasking. If you are reading/writing a ton of large files at once RAID 0 can show up to 40% performance increases, in everything else its so minimal you won't notice it.
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i've seen charts where RAID 0 scales very well though. up to %80 speed increase to read speeds.

but it doesnt matter, its not even working.
 
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