Need to know before i RAID

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czepluch

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Hi.

I have a couple of questions about RAID since I've never tried it before.

Im a tester for a hardware site so im swithing motherboard all the time. And I'm wondering if it will screw up my RAID if I do so? Wich controller should I use so that it is possible to switch mobo?

secondly: Is the Matrix Raid tecnology a good idea? I was thinking of maybe doing RAID 0 and 1 together.
 
Matrix RAID is a neat idea, I've heard it works fairly well.

If you change motherboards you'll want to take your RAID controller with you as striped RAID arrays don't switch controllers very well/at all. Since the controller on the motherboard is well, on the motherboard you'll have to buy a PCI/PCIe controller that you can plug into new boards if you want to be able to move the array around.
 
I have 3 times 500GB harddrives. But one of them is only 16 MB cache. Will it still be a good idea?
And secondly; since I WILL be swithing motherboards often it might be a stupid idea to RAID cause im not planning on buying a RAID controller. Just wanted to do the RAID if it was possible to move it around from ICH10R to ICH10R.
 
laznz1 said:
lol you cant even Bump probely lol sorry lmao
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Sorry I'm not from an english speaking country, but I think people understood what i ment anyway. Nice little gesture of you to mention it though :) I dont understand why people are using their time finding other persons' spelling errors instead of helping with their problem.
 
*slaps laznz1 and Intel_man* both, get a life...

Cromewell said:
RAID5 offers both...
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ooohw yea my bad i forgot, raid 5 supports 1 disk failure and writes the data simultaniously to at least 2 hard disks at the same time. Did i forget something?
in that case. go with raid 5 if you can. The more disks the better.
 
Vipernitrox said:
*slaps laznz1 and Intel_man* both, get a life...



ooohw yea my bad i forgot, raid 5 supports 1 disk failure and writes the data simultaniously to at least 2 hard disks at the same time. Did i forget something?
in that case. go with raid 5 if you can. The more disks the better.
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Why. It's not even out yet unless you're one of those beta testers...
 
Intel_man said:
Why. It's not even out yet unless you're one of those beta testers...
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I'm not a beta tester. But i am testing hardware for a website ;)

@ vipernitrox, thanks for the help. But I've chosen to put the two Seagate 500GB in RAID 0, and then backup important data to my samsung spinpoint 500 GB.
 
And secondly; since I WILL be swithing motherboards often it might be a stupid idea to RAID cause im not planning on buying a RAID controller. Just wanted to do the RAID if it was possible to move it around from ICH10R to ICH10R.
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If everything else stays the same it may work. I don't know, I've never tried to move an array to a new motherboard using onboard controllers.
 
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