Raid1 Disconnecting When Computer Sleeps

[zwilpon42]

I recently built my first computer and decided to use 2x 8tb HDD in Raid1 as secondary storage on it. I am running the raid array using the motherboard BIOS and AMD Raidxpert2. The problem I am finding though is when I wake my computer from sleep the Raid array disconnects and the only way to bring it back up it to restart the computer. So I have to just leave it running at all times or do a full shut down when I'm not using it.

 

I have been trying to find a solution/workaround for this but can't seem to find anything, so any advice would be very welcomed.

 

 

Build Specs:

Ryzen 3700X

Asus X570 Tuf ATX MOBO

NVIDIA GTX 1070ti

1tb Samsung 970 Evo M.2 SSD

2x 8tb Seagate  Ironwolf Nas HDD

64GB Ripraw RAM

 

[seagate_surfer]

At first glance, it seems that when they go into sleep mode, the HDDs or the RAID configuration also enters into a low-energy-consumption-mode, at the time of wake up the MOBO is not able to provide the necessary impulse for them to wake up. You can try to update the FW of the HDDs in question or disable the sleep mode entirely on your OS if that doesn't help...

[Electronics Wizardy]

Normally motherboard raid isn't very good, so id try using storage spaces instead and see if that works better, and disable raid on the motherboard.

 

 

[seagate_surfer]

Storage spaces seems to me to be a good suggestion, here you can read a little more in case you decide to do it: Storage Spaces in Windows 10 - Windows Help

[zwilpon42]

Thanks, I will take a look into that!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[seagate_surfer]

Sure! With pleasure, post again the results if you decide to try or if you need more help ...

[zwilpon42]

So I feel like I messed something up. I tried to make my un-raid my drives so I could start from scratch to do it through Storage Spaces. I deleted the array in the BIOS but when I booted back up in disk management I was only seeing 1x 4B drive instead of 2x 8TB drives. Thinking I went about it wrong I tried to remake the raid to start again and now it is showing the 4TB drive and the 8TB Raid it seems.

 

Very confused and not sure how to fix this at this point.

 

Any advice/guidance?

[Milez5858]

RAID and power management together is sketchy.  My WD 10000 RPM drives spun silently for 10 years. No issues ... I'll bet a spent 2 cents per month extra.  

 

as for your disk managment issue...  delete all those partitions on disk 1 and 2 .. break the RAID in bios.

shut down...  go into bios and recreate the RAID.  Then you should only see 1 drive in disk management.. not 2.

 

 

 

[zwilpon42]

Ok so if I want to get back to 2x 8TB drives to do the raid in Windows you think just deleting the partitions and breaking the raid in the BIOS shut get me back to that?

 

Thanks

[seagate_surfer]

2 hours ago, zwilpon42 said:

Ok so if I want to get back to 2x 8TB drives to do the raid in Windows you think just deleting the partitions and breaking the raid in the BIOS shut get me back to that?

 

Thanks

It could be, yes! At some point the partition of the devices seems to have been corrupted, if you want just make a quick format and if it doesn't work then try third-party tools. To do it open File Explorer and right click a local disk under This PC. Then click Format.

[zwilpon42]

Hey guys, I cleaned the partition and deleted the raid but now the drives aren't showing up at all in the BIOS or Windows...

 

Any thoughts?

[zwilpon42]

Nevermind! Didn't realize I had to take the sata ports out of Raid mode as well in the BIOS.

 

Go the Storage Space set up now and it does seem to be working.

 

Thanks for the help!

[seagate_surfer]

On 2/23/2020 at 7:20 PM, zwilpon42 said:

Hey guys, I cleaned the partition and deleted the raid but now the drives aren't showing up at all in the BIOS or Windows...

 

Any thoughts?

 

On 2/23/2020 at 11:21 PM, zwilpon42 said:

Nevermind! Didn't realize I had to take the sata ports out of Raid mode as well in the BIOS.

 

Go the Storage Space set up now and it does seem to be working.

 

Thanks for the help!

Glad to help! These are great news. The fact that the BIOS cannot detect those HDDs is worrying. But as you said, you have to change the Raid mode also in the BIOS. One always thinks the worst, but sometimes it's just a configuration issue and in many cases, it is something easy we don't know or forget. Now just enjoy.