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Hi, I have 4 3TB HDDs that are connected to a Z87 MOBO (Asus Z87-DELUXE/QUAD) in RAID 5, aaaand the MOBO died recently so I'm looking at getting the cash together for a new build with a Z690 MOBO (ROG MAXIMUS Z690 HERO). I'm hoping after reading the below I'll be able to recover the array and migrate it to a NAS. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000006338/technologies.html Does anyone have any experience with this? Cheers

Hi, I am looking to build a small home server/Nas using an old system I restored. Luckily, it has onboard graphics, which frees up the pcie 2.0 x16 slot, which aside from 2 PCI, is the only expansion slot. (I intend to put gigabit Ethernet in the PCI, which would pretty much saturate the bandwidth). Therefore, I need a raid card that could support multiple different raid arrays, (likely a raid 1 SSD array and a raid 5 hdd array) at the same time. I need it to have a good number SATA ports (>6 would be nice) so that I can expand down the line, and maybe even have a third array running off it if possible. Does anybody know of a good card for this that would be reliable, windows 10 compatible, and if possible, be likely to get support down the line so I could use it again on future projects. Another question: is there a way to add per-drive status and power LEDs? Since the case I am using doesn't have them. Something like a small interconnect board with the lights on it? Last question: is there a way, I windows 10, to share usb ports across the network, meaning anything plugged into the port, be it a thumb drive, cd drive, external HDD, or even floppy disk drive, will automatically be available on the network? I was thinking with a batch script that gets triggered in task scheduler, but I am not sure how to write the script, or the event ID I would need for this, nor the effectiveness. Thanks in advance:)

Hi guys, I'm entirely new to RAID. I landed a job in a post-prod house where the previous tech did a RAID 5 array in a windows computer, total size 13TB of storage. But the problem, and I have just known this by researching is that this type of config without a RAID card give very slow write speed, about 20mb/s. I want to be able to solve this problem and I read that the only way to go is to buy a RAID card. So any help with what should I tell my boss to buy? Thanks in advance!

In my computer I have a ssd as the boot drive and two 2tb hdd running in what should be an Intel raid 1 array. I say should because in the device manager under disk drive says "Intel Raid 0 Volume SCSI Disk Device". However in disk management the total capacity of those two drives is 1863.01 gb, indicating in my mind that it's a Raid 1 array. On to my real question, can I remove one of the 2tb drives and have the other drive continue unchanged? I'd like to use one of the drives for external back up rather than have a raid array.

Hey guys, First time posting, and though I'm not a complete novice, I will need a little teasing into the technical descriptions which will no doubt follow. A short history... I bought a second hand HP ProLiant ML370 G5 server a couple of years back (£300! Bargain!) to use as an audio (DAW) workstation. I'm running Win10 Pro. It's absolutely great for processing (less so for gaming, sadly) and I haven't got a problem running it. What I am struggling with understanding however are the RAID controllers (P800+P400) and how they actually work. Aside from the fact it wants me to update the firmware, that's another issue. So here's my question: I want to be able to remove drives from the machine after I've finished working on the material they contain and the music is published, to then store them wherever I feel like and replace them with a fresh drive ready for the next project. All fine, until it comes to plugging them back in again. As far as I can tell, to have Windows recognise the storage space it must first be allocated as a logical volume by the controller. But once the disk is removed and replaced (and another logical volume created), the controller seems to forget that the disk ever existed and though it does acknowledge the disk in the controller set-up, to actually allocate it as a logical volume again will destroy the data on the disk (or probably more accurately the allocation system no-longer acknowledges the data as present, I'm not sure). I guess this is because the array controller actually dictates where the data is kept while Windows is simply given a virtual version (which it reports as SSD) So, is there a way to have windows control the P4/800 directly and store the knowledge required to re-access them? Or, is there a feature of the P4/800 that I'm missing when it comes to changing drives? The bays (8x 2.5" vertical caddy array) are hot swappable, so in a perfect world I'd like to be able to use them much in the way one would a USB flash stick (software eject -> physical removal). Internet searches over about a year of generally trying to figure out what the hell people are babbling on about has left me no wiser, maybe I'm asking the wrong question. So, I figured where else to find a bunch of enthusiastic guys who could translate my query into an answer one way or the other. Right now I have about 2 disks left before I will need more space but ideally I'd like to allocate specific artists/projects to specific disks so really I need a fresh disk about now. NB, I realise HDDs do need to be spun up now and then during storage to help prevent degradation, but I'm not willing or even able to invest thousands of moneys into buying a secondary NAS array to start new projects. Your help will be much appreciated, thank you! Jon

Hi all! My question is two-fold... 1: I'm trying to find the cheapest way to store my raw editing footage (I'm expecting to have 10TB of footage, give or take) in an external enclosure. It seems that RAID arrays are quite expensive and too complicated for what I'm looking to do. Can I use an external hard drive docking station like this one to connect my hard drives and then put them into a RAID configuration in Windows? From my point of view, this seems like a great way to have a large amount of storage with some redundancy. Really, what I'm asking is: are there any glaring downsides or problems with this setup? 2: What is a NAS hard drive and do I need it for this setup? In other words, can I just buy a standard, high capacity HDD? Thank you in advance! Best Regards, Erin Joan

I have a new build, budget of about 900 bucks (£) and here it is... PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (£137.32 @ Box Limited) Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£61.98 @ Amazon UK) Memory: Team - Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£119.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Storage: Kingston - A400 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£36.98 @ Ebuyer) Storage: Kingston - A400 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£36.98 @ Ebuyer) Storage: Kingston - A400 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£36.98 @ Ebuyer) Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£29.39 @ Aria PC) Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition Video Card (£336.02 @ Amazon UK) Case: Thermaltake - Core V21 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£60.23 @ Amazon UK) Power Supply: XFX - XT 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£35.93 @ CCL Computers) Total: £891.80 Was wondering about the raid array, I want speed, but if one drive in the array fails I’ll lose it all, so would I be able to use the hdd to back everything up? Or am I just being a noob? Also, any pointers on the build? Scored a 0.34% bottleneck on thebottlenecker.com with a 10% cpu oc (will probs go further, and GPU oc). So what do u think? And will the raid+hdd work? And what software will be required?

Hey Guys! Heres a video I made describing the issue (sorry for the background noise shot this on my s9 near my servers): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hyC9AE1NJIL8OhOEsNvmUhT8vepLzKyr I have an issue over here, a client sent me this "Highpoint Rocketstor 6618a" Thunderbolt raid enclosure to handle some data on it. well, it turns out it's having an issue with the array. it's simply not detecting it. since its running on thunderbolt, the only thing I have that can read it was a mac book pro. I then had them send me the original system it was running on, this mac desktop "trash can" hoping that the raid software would just pick it up, no go... the High point website is pretty useless. and even tho they offer a firmware that supports 10.13 the raid management software does not specify that it does. im thinking a good solution would be to take put them all into my nocro server and recovery the array in Ubuntu. I would need some pointers on that. (Can testdisk read a raid array? ) System INFO: Highpoint Rocketstor 6618a type C thunderbolt Raid 0 8x 8TB WD Reds - 64TB Total Apple - Mac Pro Desktop Computer Here is what I have tried: Loading Ubuntu and installing mdadm (it is not a software raid so not too surprising that did not work) Updating the firmware on the high point from EFI 1.1 to 1.2. its supposed to fix compatible with mac os 10.13 Using a Mac book pro with osx 10.11 Using a Mac desktop with osx 10.13 The data on here is crucial! And has to be preserved at any cost! If you need more details just let me know. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Hello, I have a Ryzen Thread ripper workstation. simply put I want to add a PCI thunderbolt card to access thunderbolt raid arrays. we get sent all the time to offload the data.I have a bit of confusion when looking into some cards look like they can only do video? I want full speed. daisy chain capability. the full thunderbolt package. I did see this card which looks like it would work. but I wanted to confirm compatibly with you guys first. https://www.asrock.com/mb/spec/product.asp?Model=Thunderbolt 3 AIC Here is the system specs: Threadripper 1920X ASUS ROG ZENITH EXTREME Samsung 970 PRO etc Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

So I built my first computer about a week ago and in my computer I have installed a 1TB WD Home HHD and a 240GB Intel 5 SSD. When I first booted up the computer and it entered the BIOS the computer asked me if I wanted to create a RAID with these 2 drives. Assuming that it wouldn't have asked me unless it was a good thing, I set it up. After loading up Windows 10 64bit Home I noticed that my computer says that I only have 446GB of disk space. I thought that was weird since I should have 1.24TB of disk space. When I look up the hard drives it says I have a "Intel Raid 0 Volume." I had to wait a week until I was able to go back to the store for to ask for help. My computer runs fine and I've played games on it during that time. So today I spoke to the tech support guy at MicroCenter the place I bought my build parts from and he told me that I never should have configured my HHD and SSD into a RAID array because your only supposed to do that with identical drives i.e. HHD + HHD or SSD + SSD and not what I did, HHD + SSD. He said that's why the computer is displaying an inaccurate disk space availability figure. I asked him how I should undo this mistake and he gave me the instructions I'm going to list below. I need to know if these instructions are safe and accurate to do because he told me that I could ruin my computer if I did it wrong: "you need to reformat your hard drives and you can do that be reinstalling Windows. Also it's better to only have one hard drive in your computer when you first install Windows. Do this: 0) Back up anything you don't want to lose 1) Put your Windows 10 disk in your disk drive 2) Turn your computer off 3) take out the hard drive you don't want Windows to be installed on. In your setup I would say keep the SSD in and take the HHD out 4) turn your computer back on 5) choose to boot from your Windows 10 disc 6) Choose to install Windows 10 7) It should then ask you to reformat your hard drive so go ahead and do that 8) Install Windows 10 9) once your in and everything is working correctly take the Windows 10 disc out 10) Turn computer off 11) Install your HHD 12) Turn computer back on 13) Go to "This PC" and right click on your HHD and click "Reformat" and your done" So this sounds so incredibly involved. Is this the correct way to do it? I really need to know. Thanks guys

Dear friends. I accidentally press the clear CMOS button on my Workstation and now my pc refuses to boot and can't detect my RAID 5 array of disks. Can anyone help me resolve this issue? I have days of precious data in my drives. Many thanks!! my LSI 9260 raid card won't recognize the raid 5 array created. My workstation can't even boot Windows. My setup: HP Z800 workstation dual Xeon cpu LSI 9260 raid card quadro 6000 Gpu. Appreciate anyone one could give some advice. Thanks. Vmin

I've built several PCs but never a RAID server. In fact (quite embarassingly I've never used RAID before). Basically I am not sure where to start, since the requirements for a server are so different from a PC. This server would not be used as a final backup solution, but rather for video footage storage while working, and short term storage. Final backup would be onto LTO drives. I know I want enterprise grade drives with UREs at least 10^15, but beyond that not much. So what I don't know about is: CPU: Probably a Xeon Motherboard: Never shopped for a server mobo before, not sure. Memory: I'm assuming something with ECC, but not sure how much RAID Controller: No clue about good brands / types here either OS: Not sure, maybe FreeNAS? My main consideration is driver compatibility for any interface cards I'd be installing now and in the future, such as Thunderbolt III or whatever. Array: Probably going to use RAID 6, but was thinking about ZFS because I hear good things about it. Anyone want to point me in the right direction?

Hi everybody, I'm wondering if I can implement a RAID array with one SSD and say 3 or 4 HDD's. Do they all have to be SSD or HDD? Thanks!

Hey forum, I'm planning on setting up two raid arrays on an Asus X99-A and I've had a look at the board's raid abilities but I'm just looking for some reassurance that what I want to do is possible. I want to have two SSDs in raid 0 for my boot drive then two HDDs in raid 1. There aren't any restrictions regarding raid that could prevent me from doing this is there? Thanks everyone, happy building! -Jordan