Raid

ExodusYT01 · June 19, 2020

Hey, I'm new to the whole raid array thing and I've recently built my own computer to try and learn a thing or 2 before I get a permanent system. Recently I've started fiddling with raid storage configuration and it's become a dilemma. The 2 harddrives are both 500GB but it says their non raid and they don't have enough storage. Can someone explain to me what that is? That would be alot of help for me and noobish ways lol. And also I'm using an ASRock FM2A68M-DG3 Motherboard

Electronics Wizardy · June 19, 2020

Motherboard raid sucks, don't use motherboard raid, just use raid in your os.

It looks like the disks are allready in a array, so you can't make a array from then, but I can't really tell from the pic.

LIGISTX · June 19, 2020

10 minutes ago, ExodusYT01 said:

Hey, I'm new to the whole raid array thing and I've recently built my own computer to try and learn a thing or 2 before I get a permanent system. Recently I've started fiddling with raid storage configuration and it's become a dilemma. The 2 harddrives are both 500GB but it says their non raid and they don't have enough storage. Can someone explain to me what that is? That would be alot of help for me and noobish ways lol. And also I'm using an ASRock FM2A68M-DG3 Motherboard

I am not 100% sure what I am looking at here. Have you tried to create an array already? Or is this the screen it drops you into as soon as you get into the RAID config? Remember, if you set up RAID 0 (which is what I assume you will be doing) your data will be lost and you will need to reformat.

Also, RAID is fun to play with, but it really doesn't offer much practical application these day anymore, with the advent of SSD's. For storage solutions it makes loads of sense though.

It seems like you would have to go up to the "Arrays" section and likely hit space bar or something to check them. That will add them to the new array. I think.... Its been a long time since I have used mobo RAID (used to RAID 0 and short stroke my 300 GB Velociraptor 10k RPM drives, fun fact, I still have them and they still work), and my mobo was different so the screen was slightly different.

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Motherboard raid sucks, don't use motherboard raid, just use raid in your os.

It looks like the disks are allready in a array, so you can't make a array from then, but I can't really tell from the pic.

That is only partly true. Mobo RAID isn't the best, but for a simple RAID 0 or 1 its fine. Also, you can't get RAID 0 performance out of an OS based RAID since that has to happen at the hardware level... Can't RAID 0 AFTER your in the OS...

Electronics Wizardy · June 20, 2020

8 hours ago, LIGISTX said:

That is only partly true. Mobo RAID isn't the best, but for a simple RAID 0 or 1 its fine. Also, you can't get RAID 0 performance out of an OS based RAID since that has to happen at the hardware level... Can't RAID 0 AFTER your in the OS...

You can boot from a raid array in software, depends on software you. You can get raid 0 performance from a software raid array for boot, ive done it.

There are still issues with motherboard raid handling lots of things wrong, like drive failures, and caching, so stay away from motherboard raid, there isn't really a good reason to use it.