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I have (2) 4TB Western Digital Gold HDDs in RAID 1 (mirrored) and (2) 8TB HGST HDDs in RAID 1 (Mirrored) as well. I use both arrays for DATA only. I have a Samsung 860 EVO SSD (1TB) as my primary drive with Win 10 x64 pro. I have another Samsung 860 EVO SSD (2TB) as a DATA drive that I use for Virtualbox VMs (Virtual Machines). Periodically I am getting some really weird successive clicking sounds that do not give me a good feeling. Hoping someone here can ID the sounds and let me know if I should be worried or not. The sound occurs like 6 times in succession. It happens usually only once during a power up cycle ... as far as I can tell. I wear my headphones a lot, so Im not always paying attention. I have added LINKS to the SOUND and MY HDD Benchmarks. NOTE(s): - The RAID setup is using Windows built-in software RAID setup - The benchmarks were taken on each HDD separately before they were put in a RAID configuration - I bought the 2nd HGST HDD a year later that the first. I've noticed that it runs 3 deg C hotter and the throughput is about 20% slower - The HDDs are about (1) year old except for the new HGST drive. - The MOBO has SATA 2 which is supposed to have 3Gbs (300MB/s) maximum speeds. How is that the 2TB Samsung 860 EVO is getting 500MB/s + speeds? Let me know what you think I should do to make sure things are working correctly. If there is a questionable drive, how do I go about isolating it? What software do you recommend for testing? I use CrystalDiskMark and HDTune. Are these sounds routine for drives in a RAID 1 configuration? As always, Thanks in Advance. HARD DRIVE CLICK SOUND https://sndup.net/rzf7/ HARD DRIVE BENCHMARK AND SETUP PICTURES https://ibb.co/RYrNfyt COMPUTER SETUP ASUS P6T Deluxe - MOBO Core i7 920 - CPU (6 x 4GB) Crucial DDR3 (1600Mhz) running @ 1333Mhz MSI GTX 1650 Super - Graphics Card Corsair RM750i - PSU
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I currently have a Gigabyte GA-H270-HD3 on BIOS Version F8, a Samsung 980 500GB M.2 SSD, and 2 Seagate BarraCuda 2TB HDDs. I want to use the SSD as my boot drive, and the HDDs in RAID 1 as my storage drive, as the title says, but everything I've tried so far has broken something. The most prominent thing I've noticed so far is that for RAID, my motherboard requires BIOS > Peripherals > SATA and RST Configuration > SATA Mode Selection to be set to "Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System Acceleration" but when I select that, Windows gives me a "Inaccessable Boot Device" code and I can't boot into my SSD. When I set it to "AHCI," I can boot into my SSD just fine. Any suggestions for how I can get this working? Should I just use software "RAID" through Windows instead? I've heard that software RAID is slower, so I would rather use hardware if possible. -
Morning all, I had questions about RAID and redundancy. Sorry if this has been asked before. First off, setup: I7-3770, P8Z77-V LK Asus Motherboard, 8GB DDR3, GTX 1660 Super, 3x8TB Seagate drives(not NAS rated) 1x5TB Seagate Drive, 240GB Kingston SSD. Use of setup: Only running Plex and a file server-DNLA(in case i want to transfer uncompressed movie/show files to phone, I do this often). 1x8TB holds all my media. 1x8TB is blank, 1x8TB is an external drive that I backup manually with my media drive( would love to automate this). 1x5Tb is used for downloading media and converting if necessary so i do not bottleneck/wear out media drive needlessly. SSD is for OS(WIN 10 PRO) Plex Metadata is also saved on this. Want: In the end of all this i would like to have a Raid 1 or something similar to automatically backup my media drive( I would like Raid 1 just for the speed benefits of downloading media off of it more quickly). As well as having my current 8TB external drive backup automatically( I do not want Seagates tiered backup file system, I just want the current file backed up to look exactly like my Media drive.) Question: I have heard and seen on this forum that a lot of people tend to steer away from RAID due to issues with motherboard compatibility and or errors that cause the drive to be useless. What is your guys thoughts? I am just tired of manually backup up drives. I am currently trying to use Software Mirror via Disk MGMT and it is currently at 45% Resyncing the 2x8TB drive (they were freshly formatted before mirror started). Is this the best option for what I have? A lot of people i have seen steered away from motherboard RAID, just because if the motherboard died you might be in deep shit. P:S: If i had all my ducks in a row, I would like to have 4x8TB (or bigger ) 2 sets of raid 1. One pair for Movies and the second pair with TV shows.
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I have this old dell optiplex gx260 that i personally used from 2008 to 2014, I've switched to a dell lattitude d630 laptop until last year, I've had alot of family photos and vids that i really can't afford to lose, I've decided to turn that old pc to a sever (raid 1), and since I'm a bit of a newbie i don't have the "know how" to go through it, i do realize that i don't have much to work with but I'm on a tight budget, i have a combined 250gb scattered around 3 hdds, can anyone walk me through the process or at least give me an advice on how to build this server (i can use the motherboard of the d630)
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Hey guys. I recently posted a planned build to the forum. One of the things someone said was that I shouldn't use two ssd-drives in raid 1 for my project drive because it is not a backup. I understand this, and am planning to do daily backups to a NAS and cloud storage, but the thing is that even with that if I were to undergo a disk failure I would lose one day of musical compositions and school work which would be terrible, so I wanted a raid 1 config just to avoid this. Here are the two options. Should I go with the two evo drives or the one pro drive? Thanks Config 1: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/9WHt8M Config 2: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/GNkrrV
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I had a RAID 1 set up on a different machine and have since moved 1 of my WIndow Server OS Drives to a new system, but I didn't include the RAID 1 array when I put 1 of the drives on a new motherboard. If I go to put the second drive with it's pair drive and attempt to reset up the RAID 1 array on the new system, will it wipe one or both drives? Or will it be ok and start mirroring each other and would drive 1 mirror to Drive 2 since Drive 1 would have newer information?
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ok so my current set up is 500GB SSD as my C drive and 2TB HDD as secondary storage. I was thinking about getting 2 more 2TB HDD so I can have some redundancy. my idea is I put the 2 new HDD in raid 0 and put a 2TB partition and a 500GB partition and put those partitions in raid 1 with the corresponding SSD and HDD. is this even possible?
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Hi! I work with video editing and had only 1 4TB HDD in my machine, besides my system SSD. Recently I bought another 4TB HDD and one 8TB HDD. So, can I, wihtout any dedicated hardware controller, RAID 0 these two 4TB HDDs and then RAID 1 that RAID with the 8TB HDD? Note: the old HDD is a WD Black and the new ones are Seagate Ironwolfs (NAS HDDs) thanks a lot! -
I have a windows server 2012 r2 installation that was in raid 1 using a hardware based controller. The raid somehow broke and disk 0 has windows boot loader and a copy of the windows 2012 server installation where AD services are broken. Disk 1 has a functioning installation of windows server 2012 R2 that tests good, but I want to get it on a new raid 1 array. As of right now Disk 1 wont work without Disk 0s boot loader. How can I clone disk 1s windows installation that we want, but then get windows boot loader back on it?
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Context: I am making a server for my family's small business for data pooling, backups and redundancy. The total data will not exceed 1tb (for a year at least), and there will be a maximum of seven to eight computers accessing it at any time. Keeping the budget low is paramount. I have decided to go with Ryzen 3 processor and a sub $100 Motherboard. For the OS, I have decided to use ClearOS, although all my client computers run windows. I intend to use samba or similar, to enable access. Questions about the build: 1. I know servers are conventionally better off running chips like Xeons with ECC memory, but the only affordable Xeon I was able to find is the Intel Xeon Processor E3110 (6M Cache, 3.00 GHz, 1333 Mhz FSB) that costs around $140. Can I get away with using a consumer grade CPU like a Ryzen 3? (or Celeron/Pentium?) (Note: It seems that the Xeon is a bit dated [2008] and it doesn't perform that well for that price) 2. What motherboard should I choose? Is the MSI ProSeries AMD Ryzen A320 DDR4 VR Ready USB 3 micro-ATX Motherboard (A320M PRO-VD PLUS) a good choice? Questions about RAID 1: 1. Does every motherboard support raid? If not, does the one mentioned support RAID? 2. Do I need to get a raid card for RAID 1? 3. If yes, is this a good choice: Syba Combo SATA III (6.0Gbps) + IDE Ports (2+1) PCI-Express RAID 0, 1 Card SD-PEX40035? Any suggestions for the hardware and OS are welcome!
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hello guys, i'm building a workstation for a client, and he wants to go with full relieabillity. now i'm asking myself if its possible to go raid-1 on NVM-e ssd's on the c236 platform and make it bootable. can anyone help me to get the answere? best regards
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Hallo, Can anyone help me; I have a windows 10 Education version and i want to setup Raid 1 to protect my data. I have two HDD, 2 TB each. One contains the windows including my data, and the other is empty (unallocated). I tried to create Raid 1 through Win-Disk Management by creating New Mirrored Volume, but it seems that this option is disabled in my windows version !! Can anyone help me how to create Raid 1 in this case? Last time, my HDD failed and I lost all my data ;(. Thanks
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Built a pc back in 2010 and had a friend help me set up two 1TB drives in RAID 1 setup for redundancy. I've now outgrown that drive with a bunch of media files and would like to do the following: - Break current RAID 1 setup and remove one of the original drives - Install two new 2TB drives as RAID 1 setup that house photos and videos only Ultimately, I won't care about redundancy on the boot drive which will still house Windows 7 and all of the program files. The files that I care about would be on the 2 new drives, so is this easily doable? My Motherboad has 3 total SATA ports. I'd get some help from local PC shop, but just wanted to know if I'm missing any fatal flaws in my plan. I've searched other threads and YouTube vids, but haven't found this topic thread yet. Thanks! -
Hello, I would like to setup a combination of HDD and SSD in my pc and I am wondering what the best way to do that would be. I want an SSD for the OS and another for Battlefield4 and Ark. For the rest of my data I want to use one or more HDDs. My question is what is the best way to set it up, I've heard about setting up a Raid and using the drives externally. Could I setup the data I want on the drives and plug them into a dock or would I be better off setting up a Raid? Also ate there other options?
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I'm simply trying to establish a singular pair of mirrored drives. From what I've seen there should be a mirror drive option listed below. I'm am not sure why it's not displayed in my situation. If anyone has any ideas or help, it would be greatly appreciated.
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Hiya! I'm trying to load my OS on a RAID array of 2 Samsung 850 Pro SSDs. The OS in question is Windows 10 Pro, the motherboard is the Asus Rampage VI Extreme, and the fucker doesn't want to work with RAID 0. I can see the full volume 238.5 GB of unallocated space, but I cannot do anything to install windows when it is setup in RAID 0. I just get errors of unable to install windows on this location, which persist after using the command prompt to clean the drive. The windows installer UEFI will not let me create a bootable partition out of that unallocated space either; in fact, when trying to create a partition in the command prompt by selecting the disk and entering the command "create partition primary" I get a CRC error. And, mind you, I'm using the directions from the ASUS manual (https://dlsvr04.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA2066/ROG_RAMPAGE_VI_EXTREME/E12842_ROG_RAMPAGE_VI_EXTREME_UM_WEB.pdf) still with 0 luck. So for shits and giggles I wanted to see if I would run into the same error with RAID 1, and that fucker installed and booted up with no problem! I'm at a complete loss here, and beyond pissed at my incompetence/inability to find a solution, so does anyone have ideas on what might be going wrong or what I could try? Thanks! -Sephiroth -
Hi everyone. In my ASUS motherboard (Z9PE-D8 WS) workstation I have an existing windows 10 which I am using as normal. OS is installed on SSD 1TB Samsung Evo. I now have purchased additional 2x 6TB Western Digital Red drives which I would like to place as RAID1 configuration, so that I have another volume in system to store my files and rest in peace knowing that 2x drives are mirroring information in case one is to fail. I fallowed all the procedures on my motherboard manual and in BIOS enabled from SATA Mode to RAID Mode. Once that was done, I rebooted computer, pressed ctrl + I and completed set up of two WD drives as RAID1. Once I restarted the device I got the blue screen with sad face. I looked online and from my understanding (and this is where I would like to receive confirmation from intelligent people here) I should only change SATA Mode to RAID Mode if I am to install OS after RAID setup. If I already have an existing OS set up and go in BIOS to change the mode settings, the blue error screen is normal. So my understanding is that I should instead of using hardware RAID1 setup, use software RAID1 (mirror) set-up such as "Disk Management" built in Windows 10. Could you please confirm on the above. What is also interesting, now that I have setup the RAID1 volume using ctrl+I (when RAID mode was enabled in BIOS, now I have it set back to SATA mode and don't have the blue screen), it appears in "Disk Management" as a single drive (see attachment). I also get a pop-up window (see attachment) asking me to "Initialize Disk". Does this mean the RAID1 configuration is working fine for those drives and I will have both drives mirrored? I really look forward to your responses. Thank you everyone!
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Hi All, I have 2 Identical 2TB drive. I have some data already on one drive but the other one is completely empty. I want to do Raid 1 on my 2nd drive and search the net how to do it. There is Storage Space but it doesn't work then I tried adding mirror on disk management but the option wasn't there. I'm using windows 10 home. If there is more needed information to help me out setting Raid 1 on my system pls let me know. All I want to do is use the 2nd drive for redundancy. If there is another option to do it pls help me out. Thanks
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I have a RAID 1 running on a ga-h67ma-usb3-b3 motherboard. This was setup in the raid bios and not in the OS. The raid is made up of 1x 2tb disk and 1x 3tb disk, obvious that this is not ideal but its what i hardware and that i had laying around. Without the intel rapid storage driver i can see the 700+gb of unused space from the 3tb disk but cant see the raid in partition manager, but with the driver i cant see the unused the space but i can see the raid. OS is running off a separate SSD. If i delete the raid and go to partition manager i see partitions that are used for the raid but it wont let me make the unused space a simple volume. Anyway i can map the unused space and the raid at the same time? or should i just give up delete the raid and make a software raid with partitions. Or is windows just not going to co-operate
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I am setting up a storage server for my family's family business and am conflicted on what RAID setup I should do. We have four 2TB WD Black drives for the server and I don't know if I should run them all in RAID 10 or do dual RAID 1's. I like the extra layer of redundancy with the dual RAID 1's but read and write performance is important because we have anywhere from 3 to 8 workstations hitting it all at once for extended periods of time (sometimes all 8 for nearly 10 hours). So would it be worth it to use the RAID 10 considering all the drives will be backed up nightly to a separate machine with 4 drives in a RAID 5 array?
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Hey community! After formatting two of my Seagate hard drives in my PC to raid 1, my computer started having problems. I have a 960 Evo, and the boots were quick with the hdds unformatted, but after using windows to format them to raid 1, my computer took longer to boot and wouldn't shut down. I eventually had to hold the power button for a few seconds to get it to turn off. Help!!!
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My original backup disk (just a single 3TB drive with no redundancy) started dying on me. So I bought 2 new 3TB drives and put them in RAID 1 to prevent a similar situation and recovered my most important files. Now my new volume has about 52GB of data. The drive is just for storage and does not contain any windows files or software that runs in the background. I noticed that the drives where active all the time and didn't spinn down going on many hours now. Then I noticed it was actually reading from one drive and writing to the other in what seems to be a synchronization operation. It reads and writes at over 170MB/s so with only 52GB on the drive it should be finished a long time ago. Or does it resynch the entirety of the drives regardless of actual space used? This is my first time using RAID so I was wondering if this is normal? Will it happen often or just the first time? I expected it to just be synching/resynching the files I add.
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Hello good people of LTT So, a quick question, I want to introduce a RAID 1 array to my machine for redundancy but I seem to be running into a snag. I have Windows 10 installed on my 960 EVO and created the RAID 1 volume in my UEFI, but Windows keeps giving me a "boot drive not accessable" BSOD. I've already tried forcing the next boot to be in safe mode in windows before enabling RAID but the error still comes. Any idea?
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I want to have a raid on on my 512 nvme boot drive and hdd what it the best way to do this. -
I have a computer case with 3 x 3.5" hard drive bays. I want to put 3 x 4TB hard drives in there, and RAID them to total them to 12TB. I am looking for a way to make 12TB of storage. What do you think is my best solution?
