Most insane raid?

[Sir Rob]

Hi there am building 1950X thread ripper and would love a step by step guide on setig up raid 0 on four 960 pro's as linus did. I have latest bios for my zenith (bios 1601) and hyper card can anyone pls help this is my first water cooled build had two leaks but got them sorted. and at the moment 64gb ram.

 Asus Zenith Extreme

Amd 1950X cpu

XSPC Raystorm Neo Cpu water block

Heat Killer Vrm Water block

2 Asus Strix oc 1080Ti's

With Phanteks Glacier Water blocks

2 X Trident Z RGB 64 Gb Kits (F4-3200C14Q-64GTZR)

Silverstone USB 2 X 3.1 Gen 2 10GB card

Sound Blaster ZXR sound card

Asus Hyper M.2 Board

4 X Samsung 960 pro M.2's

6Tb western Digital HDD

Samsung 1Tb 860 evo SSD

10GB Card reader USB 3.1 Gen 2

Bitspower twin pump mod with 2 D5 pumps

Asus BLU RAY Writer 16 x (BW-16D1HT PRO

PIONEER BDR-S11JJ-X

Monsoon Resivior

XSPC BLACK CHROME FITTINGS

Monsoon Hard line fittings

Primo Chill PETG 13MM HARD TUBE

16 Thermaltake 140 Ring Plus fans + 4 Noctua industrial fans

Thermaltake WP100 Case

G Skill KM780 RGB Key Board

G Skill MX780 Gaming Mouse

Asus ROG SWIFT PG27U

[Sir Rob]

PS corsair ax1500i

cable mod cables

Bitspower flow meter

[Electronics Wizardy]

12 minutes ago, Sir Rob said:

would love a step by step guide on setig up raid 0 on four 960 pro's as linus did.

Why are you doing this? You can get much faster drives than this raid array, and these are old gen drives.

 

Do you want this array bootable? Id just use storage spaces and have a seprate boot drive(get a optane if you want the fastest drives)

[Sir Rob]

been buying parts for over 12months and at the time they were

 

[corrado33]

Raid 0, while fastest, is dumbest. One drive fails and you lose everything. 

 

You said you have 4 drives, you should just run Raid 5 which offers superior read speeds, average write speeds. If you want even superior read speeds AND write speeds comparable to a single drive, you should do Raid 1+0. Raid 0 by itself is dumb.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, corrado33 said:

Raid 0, while fastest, is dumbest. One drive fails and you lose everything. 

 

You said you have 4 drives, you should just run Raid 5 which offers superior read speeds, average write speeds. If you want even superior read speeds AND write speeds comparable to a single drive, you should do Raid 1+0. Raid 0 by itself is dumb.

raid 0 really isn't that bad of a idea. SSD failure is pretty rare, and with backups the chance of data loss is very low, and from the looks of the system uptime isn't the most import.

[Sir Rob]

Ok this is my first raid set up and all info will be looked into Thanks

Just not sure that's part of why I posted.

Thanks again

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Sir Rob said:

Ok this is my first raid set up and all info will be looked into Thanks

Just not sure that's part of why I posted.

Thanks again

Do you want this raid bootable? Id personally have a seprate boot drive(how about a optane drive, much faster than the 960's, then use the 960's for games and other files

[Sir Rob]

Still goto set every thing up just got motherboard drivers installed

 

[Sir Rob]

yep

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Sir Rob said:

Still goto set every thing up just got motherboard drivers installed

 

Do you have a os installed? You gonna want to do a reinstall with the new raid, and that will wipe all drivers.

[Sir Rob]

nope just motherboard drivers still in process thats why I'm asking

[Sir Rob]

sorry only done the bios

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Sir Rob said:

nope just motherboard drivers still in process thats why I'm asking

Then you need to put the amd raid drivers on a usb stick and put that in the system when installing windows, then install the drivers.

did you look at this https://drivers.amd.com/relnotes/amd-raid-quick-start-guide.pdf

[Sir Rob]

yep got that printed out and sitting on top of the pc and asus have got amd drivers with the latest drivers

[Sir Rob]

Ps only got bios done so farjust like to know all options while setting up my first raid set up see Linus's youtube on insane rasid while I was buying parts and thought I would go hat way after I had my Mother board and graphics cards