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Intel RST - They Cannot Be Serious?

draculr
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Seemingly with this Rapid Storage Technology, if you ever reset your bios (say like me last night when I updated my bios) the RST will be completely reset killing any and all RAID volumes in your system...

 

If I wasn't absolutely paranoid about data backups - I have 3 backups minimum - I'd have lost the last couple of sets of wedding photos and likely have been sued because of it. 

 

Now I'm sitting here with a system that has lost it's main storage unit. To add insult to injury when I re-enable RST in the bios windows 8 crashes on boot, lovely. I am never again going to rely on internal RAID controllers. Having your storage volumes tied to the bios in such a way is ludicrous! Someone could come along and hit the clr cmos button on the back of my rampage board and completely screw me over.

 

Luckily we have 6TB drives now so i've ordered a new 6tb drive to replace my old raid setup and will just have to take the performance hit.

 

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I'd install Windows on an external drive and run it on the PC and try to recover what I assume is going to be RAW partitions.


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I'd install Windows on an external drive and run it on the PC and try to recover what I assume is going to be RAW partitions.

 

Luckily I don't need to go through that as I had backups. It's just crazy how easily it allows the RAID partition to be killed. I'm rebuilding my storage system in the next couple of days and will completely avoid using RST.

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Luckily I don't need to go through that as I had backups. It's just crazy how easily it allows the RAID partition to be killed. I'm rebuilding my storage system in the next couple of days and will completely avoid using RST.

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Everyone listen to this guy.

 

BACK UP YOUR DATA

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Everyone listen to this guy.

 

BACK UP YOUR DATA

 

True, but in reality don't take firmware updates lightly, whether it be the mobo BIOS or RAID card BIOS or a drive BIOS (yes drives have BIOS or firmware as well).

 

I have never had such a thing happen because I take my BIOS updates seriously and don't let it happen without knowing well enough BIOS settings will be reset and have the values saved away, most BIOS's these day's let you back it up to a thumb drive and reapply them of not have profiles within BIOS so you can set them back after a BIOS update.

 

BIOS settings are data as well so should be backed up. B)

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Get a RAID card?

 

Honestly I know it's just due to me being bitten right now but I'm not going to trust any RAID setups for a while. I am going to throw a 1Tb SSD in my system as my "work area" so I no longer need to use RAID for performance and then just have as many HDDs backing up as I possibly can. As a wedding photographer I don't even want to think about what would happen if I lose those photos.

 

This did teach me the lesson of not only relying on my usual automated backup drives however. I am going to start saving the raw image files from each wedding on separate external drives at least until I deliver them to the client.

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True, but in reality don't take firmware updates lightly, whether it be the mobo BIOS or RAID card BIOS or a drive BIOS (yes drives have BIOS or firmware as well).

 

I have never had such a thing happen because I take my BIOS updates seriously and don't let it happen without knowing well enough BIOS settings will be reset and have the values saved away, most BIOS's these day's let you back it up to a thumb drive and reapply them of not have profiles within BIOS so you can set them back after a BIOS update.

 

BIOS settings are data as well so should be backed up. B)

 

Unfortunately the RST sits outside of the bios. When the bios is reset RST loses everything so even if you copy the bios settings back it doesn't magically recover the RAID volumes. That was what my rant was about, it just seems WAY too fragile a system.

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Unfortunately the RST sits outside of the bios. When the bios is reset RST loses everything so even if you copy the bios settings back it doesn't magically recover the RAID volumes. That was what my rant was about, it just seems WAY too fragile a system.

 

Its not fragile, you just need to take care of your RAID array as a RAID array, whether you use Intel's, LSI's, etc. you still need to watch out for changes that will affect your RAID array, otherwise RAID is not for you.

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