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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. -
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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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 a 240GB ssd and want to put it in a raid 1 in the next few weeks. Can i clone the dive setup the raid then re clone the drive backto the ssd to create the raid 1?
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I am looking to piece this mobo/cpu/ram combo: http://www.natex.us/Intel-S2600CP-Motherboard-Package-Deal-p/intel-s2600cp2j-128gb.htm With a few 1TB SSDs. I am either going to do RAID 1 with 2 SSD's or RAID 5 with 4 SSD's. I have never used a hardware RAID card so I am really not sure how to go about it and I am reading that ESXi is pretty picky with RAID cards. Is there a one-size-fits-all basic raid card? Is that even a good idea with SSD? Thanks!
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I am considering purchasing several items for an external hard drive enclosure solution for my two 2.5" 1TB Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drives to run in RAID 1. I would like to plug these in via USB to my MacBook Air until I build my gaming/productivity PC. I noticed that on the ICY DOCK full metal 4x2.4 SATA HDD and SSD Hot Swap Tough Armor MB994SK-1B there are SATA and Molex power connectors on the back. Is there any adaptor to plug this into my computer via USB or is this just for PC's? I also found some other options that are for sure USB powered such as the Syba Dual 2.5" SATA III HD/SSD RAID SY-ENC25024 https://www.amazon.com/Syba-Dual-2-5-Inch-Enclosure-SY-ENC25024/dp/B0081II3FW/ref=sr_1_20?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1487824960&sr=1-20&keywords=2.5"+double+drive+enclosure+SATA This looks like a great option on paper with hardware RAID configurations, but reviews say that RAID 1 is unreliable and years worth of data can be lost. I am wondering if anyone knows if this is a good option? If not, would I be better off going with a dual 2.5" USB 3.0 External Enclosure from Zagall https://www.amazon.com/DUAL-External-Enclosure-SATA-Drive/dp/B004OU7R7Q ? Also, is this the same thing as this BYTECC BT-M260U3 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817145096 ? Does anyone know how to configure RAID 1 on Mac OS Sierra? Is it an easy process, or would I be better off getting a physical switch on the external HDD enclosure to control RAID such as on the Syba mentioned above. Thanks so much, I know don't know very much about RAID or the proper enclosures or connectors so any help would be greatly appreciated! -
Hey I have now had my two 3 TB HDD's in RAID 1 for a couple of days and every day they recync which takes many hours. It kind of ruins the purpose of redundancy when it's just wearing out the drives. When I search on Google people suggest it's something with the power or maybe a software to hardware communication error. Though I can easily restart my PC after resync is done without it starting to resync again. I can also shut down the PC and turn it on again with no problem. It's after I have slept and turn the PC on again when it's a new day it starts to resync. (Yes I turn off the power in the socket and pull out the cable when I have shut down the PC properly). My guess is that it maybe has something to do with the motherboard? Maybe fast boot or something? When the PC is shut down and all fans stops, some red light on the motherboard is still glowing. The way I created the RAID 1 volume was just in Disk Management -> add mirror. Don't know if there's anything to be done in BIOS or something. Here's my system: Windows 10 Pro Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM008 3 TB RAID 1 Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3 TB RAID 1 Intel i7-4790K @ 4.7 Ghz overclock Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Phoenix GS Kingston HyperX FURY Black 2x8 GB (DDR3) Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB Asus Z97-PRO Gamer Corsair RM750 Other PCI-E connected devices: TP-LINK TL-WN881ND (wifi adapter), Creative Sound Blaster Z (soundcard) I really appreciate some help or some clever thougts on the matter Thanks in advance
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I have a z170xp-sli mainboard in a new build with an M.2 pcie x4 SSD for the system drive running windows 10 pro. Other storage is one non-RAID HDD and two 1 TB HDD in RAID 1. The RAID 1 volume has problems, it took 3 days for IRST to "initialize" the drive and then it immediately started rebuilding, after several days it finished and then started rebuilding again. Read write performance is terrible, takes hours to move a 4 GB or so, something is wrong. I have dleeted the RAID voulme and used WD tool on each HDD and found no problems, then I tried an older version of the intel driver with no luck either. The non RAID HDD works fine, as does the M.2 SSD. The RAID drives are plugged into SATA3_0 and SATA3_1, the other drive is SATA3_2. Any suggestions? -
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?
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Hello, Had a question regarding a RAID 1 setup i've been working on. The system is a server running Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard with 2 x 1TB WD Database Drives configured in RAID 1. When we boot the system the raid is normal and all is good but we've just come across something in Intel rapid storage where it prompts us that RAID is not initialized. It then gives us the opportunity to then initialize it so we do. Next time the system boots we receive the same "Initialized: No". If anyone has information for us that would be much appreciated. Thanks!
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I'm just starting up on this forum, and I have a question about PC storage using RAID. I have a Samsung 750 120GB SSD, and a Western Digital 1TB HDD, and I'm considering getting a second SSD so I can set up a RAID 0 configuration for the two SSDs and use the HDD as a backup. Is it worthwhile going through this, or should I stick to my plan of using the SSD for the OS and the HDD for storage of everything else? Would greatly appreciate some feedback, thanks
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Hello everyone, So I have 2 WD Reds 4TB in Raid 1 in my system with my data on them. Everything was running fine. Yesterday I was trying to get to someones data on a HDD, so I booted up Linux on a bootable USB, but I left everything else in my system. Now that I'm booting back into windows, my raid array does not show up in Windows, but the intel RST program says my array is fine. In the splashscreen while booting everything seems fine as well. The RST program is "initializing" the drives but it takes like forever and I don't know what that means. Any ideas on how I can get my array to show up again? It looks really weird in disk management, but since I'm using raid through the intel thing I probably shouldn't use disk management fiddle with the disks/array... Thanks, Stef
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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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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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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 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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I recently purchased an Intel 600p 512gb nvme m.2. . My OS and programs are currently stored on a raid 1 array consisting of 2 Trion 150 240gb SSD's. I want to copy my OS and program to the m.2 drive. And use the 2 drive for data storage. I was wondering if i need to be worried due to the fact I'm copying from a raid. And if Acronis can accomplish this.
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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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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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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!
