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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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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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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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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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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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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 -
I've this theory for a few months now and no one seems to know the answer so I thought I'd try here. My motherboard is a Asus Z87-A with SATA hotplug and RAID 1 abilities. What I'd like to know is, is it possible while my computer is on to swap an HDD with an SSD, let the Intel Rapid storage software rebuild the raid, then swap the second drive again with another SSD and basically upgrade the raid from two HDDs to two SSDs? Since hotplug is enabled and RAID 1 is a mirroring of two or more drives, wouldn't it be possible to do this without reinstalling Windows 10? Let me know and thanks in advance! Grid
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Hi. I have built a media server for myself and I have equipped it with one 256 gb ssd and two 3 tb hdds. At the time I had gotten a tip that I should set it to raid 1, but lately I've been running out of storage space and have found out that the redundancy isn't that important to me. I'd rather have the other 3 tb. Is there any way to remove the raid 1 without removing all of the content on the disks? It's just movies and tv shows so it isn't a major crisis, but it would be a lot easier to not have to download it all once more. I should add that I love the tech tips show, but I am not super smart when it comes to computers. I know enough to build them and use them, but just over average about all the rest. Thanks in advance Regards, Reidar, Norway
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Basically I'm having a 4 x 2TB RAID 10 HDD array and want to know if I can also run a RAID 0 array with 2 SSDs off the same motherboard - the MSI X99A SLI Plus Thanks, James
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Hi Linus Forums, I'm looking to perform a raid1 configuration on an ssd. I would like recommendations for the best ssd to use (brand or type) at an affordable price. Thank You
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Hello... I never have had a RAID drive fail on me. Sad to say. In school we learn RAID and server / IT in general. But they are not paid to learn us anything useful... In a server rack with raid cards running above RAID 1 the admin have to change a drive if it fails. Easy! But what about a nomal day gaming PC with RAID support? Installing Vista on a RAID 1 is not hard. But what happens when one of the drives fails? Bluescreen? Boot problems? And how do you fix it? In a server you change the drive and rebuild the drive manualy or it's automatic. But inside a BIOS I can't find a hint of something like that.... ( Not running RAID btw ) I love to have 2st 128GB SSD of RAID 1 vs 216GB of simple drive space. But only if the RAID is easy to take care of. And how hard is it to UN RAID? Like making it a normal drive agen without removing all the data on it? If only LMG had a video explaining this :c
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My Aging HP xw4400 Workstation PC has gotten slower every day. I recently got 2 500 GB Hard drives from my Dad's old PC. For most of their life, they would record an Hour, be watched, then delete that hour of movie. So, it shouldn't be expected that for being on only 2 hours a day, for only 3 years, that the hard drives take over 5 minutes to boot into Windows 10 on a machine that would take 30 seconds with an SSD. Why does it do this? I wasn't expecting an SSD experience with them, but 5 MINUTES? That's Ridiculous, even with their life. So, it has been written to completely very few times. Why do I get 10 MB Max Transfer on it and have it maxed out when the PC is Idle? Could it Be dying?
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Ok, I currently have a 1TB SSHD in my system and am looking to expand. I was thinking of acquiring two SSD's and run them in RAID 0 and backing them up to the SSHD. I just wanted some opinions if people think I'm not doing the right thing or if I should run the SSD's in raid 1. The plan is to keep the operating system on the SSHD but move my games to the SSD's to increase the gaming experience. The SSD's are Samsung 850 EVO's at 500GB each giving me 1TB more. OS: Windows 10 64-bit Motherboard: MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming Edition CPU: Intel i5-4670K 3.40GHz RAM: 16GB Kingston HyperX Beast GPU: EVGA GTX GeForce 960 ssc Thanks!
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So i'm very new to raid as you can probably guess from the title and thought here would be the best place to ask. so my current situation is that I have a 1tb boot drive and another 2tb drive I brought later to go with that (both are 7200rpm) so my question is if I brought this: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/highpoint-rocket-640l-lite-4-internal-port-hdd-controller raid card and a 3tb drive would it be possible to do a raid 1 with the 1 and 2tb drives mirrored onto the 3tb and if so can this be done without data loss on the 1 and 2tb drives and if this is not possible what would be the best way for me to do data redundancy without loss of my current data thanks in advance -
I have a MSI x99s Motherboard and have 2 ssd in Raid 0. I had a backup mechanical HDD for my music, pictures and stuff. Well I was wanting to make a Raid 1 for my backup drive. I bought my second drive installed it and backed up my backup drive. I went to create the Raid 1 array and it asked my to wipe my drive. Well little did I know that this ended up wiping my Raid 0 which has my OS, games and some files I didnt have backed up. The drive is still intact I haven't written over it. I ended up reinstalling windows on my Raid 1 temporarily until I could find a solution to recover/rebuild my Raid 0. Is there a solution that I can bring all my files back and some how not have to reinstall my OS and all my programs. Second solution is there a possible free recovery software that I can access the Raid 0 which doesn't have a drive letter on windows and recover my data some how. Thanks in advance. I will be awaiting responses for anyone who may need more info.
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Basically, I have a 3TB WD Green HDD with a lot of my data on it, and I want to get a 2nd drive and make a RAID 1 in case of a HDD failure. But the drive is already in use, so is it possible to just add a drive and turn it into a RAID 1, or will I have to move all of the data off of the drive first? Thanks
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I have a pretty decent system. 16GB RAM, and an i5 CPU. However I'm using a crappy 10 year old hard drive and my system is not as fast as I think it should be. It also has a terrible scratching, clicking noise from the HDD so it's probably on it's last legs. I'm only using 271 GB of storage at the moment but I'm getting more and more into PC gaming. I would like to buy an SSD now but I don't have the biggest budget. I was thinking about a 500GB SSD but would that be enough for future games? Then if that was enough I would probably buy another in the future and put that in RAID 1 as a backup. Or should I use that second to create 1TB of storage? What would be the best setup possible? Should I get a cheap HDD for backup's? (Might be a good idea because then I could use that to backup other computers in the network.) Does anyone have any preferences on the best (and hopefully cheaper) SSD's out there? And is it fairly straight forward to clone data? Thanks! Grant.
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Ok. I have 2x 320gb HDD's from 2 identical laptops that I have(One of them was my bro's, but I have both of em, and both of em are retired). I plan on moving all the files to some other drive. But when I do that, I want to eventually set up a small server for a small website eventually, because I have plans to start a computer buisness, I don't have budget for a real storage setup, so would 320gb drives be enough to store a small website for ordering a few different computers? I believe they are both 320gb Western Digital Scorpio Blues.
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Hello, First off I want to tell that I'm very new to this with RAID and I'm not sure of how everything works in a software/hardware level, apart from that I know the basic differences between different RAID-configs (thank you wikipedia). Now the question: Is there a cheaper alternative to external RAID-controllers? My case: I photograph and do video, and I've collected quite a lot of material soon to fill up my 1 TB of data. I want to expand the storage to 2 TB, but to have so many eggs in the same basket is dangerous without a backup. Even if the photos and videos were divided onto different disks they still can fail one and one, and every single photo that is not a product pic is irreplaceable imho. So I want an automated backup system that is not affected by whichever computer I plug it into. Now from what I understand, if I use the Windows software RAID it only works with the correct computer - i.e. the one that you set up the RAID - or have I misunderstood the concept here? My storage plan: 2 x 2 TB 3.5" HDD 7200 RPM in RAID 1 to ensure backup. PROBLEM: This is a really, REALLY expensive setup, and I'm looking for alternatives that could do what I want without costing a kidney or two.
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is it possible to RAID 1 drives of different sizes? for example, two 1 TB drives with 1 2 TB drive, two 3 TB drives with a 6TB one, etc...
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Is it possible to Raid 0 or Raid 1 ssd's of different rated speed or do all raided drives need to be of the same rated speed?? Thank you in advance!!!
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Hey guys, I need some input! I do event & wedding cinematography at a semi-professional level. I deal with 60-170GB of footage per projects for clients. I am looking for a RAID 1 solution so I am protected against drive failure. Currently, I am not trying to solve the problem of "backing up"; I'm focussed on getting a preventative measure for failure of a drive. Adding internal hard drives is out, I'm really set on Network storage. I'm planning on using 2 WD 6TB Red drives (for sure). Here are the two models I'm stuck between, price is not a bottleneck but I do want to save money if possible... WD MyCloud EX2 Synology DS214play For the WD MyCloud EX2, I really like the ease of use of this machine and it looks like it doesn't enough of what I need it to do with some bonus things. It looks simple enough that I don't think I'll have a headache when setting it up. I also really like the easy hot swap... It has good amount of USB ports too. For the DS214play, I really like that it has a hardware H.264 transcoder... I film and edit with mainly 1080p video files... This may help with looking through footage ( at least i think it will; especially over the internet). I love the control that you have with the Synology DSM software. I'm pretty much sold, it looks decent and handleable since I have a limited knowledge about networking. Both NAS options allow for file sharing which is great. I like the way that "users" work on the Synology management. Right now I'm just stuck between a sort of limitless experience with a Synology DS214play or the ease of use of a WD MyCloud EX2. If anyone has any other NAS suggestions, I might reconsider...
