Sooo close... just need to get mobo RAID working

[KCmetro]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

JBOD is basically any drive that not in raid. I explianed the setup more here.

 

 

So the JBOD approach is like turning RAID on its side, it sounds like.

 

[d1][d2]

becomes

[x1w1][x2w2]

(x=linux,w=windows)

then turn x1x2 into raid1 in linux

then turn w1w2 into raid1 in windows

 

or is it different?

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, KCmetro said:

last option being:

"Use softare raid. You can partition the disks in half, and have one half btrfs raid 1 in linux and the other half raid 1 in windows. "

?

Yep. Thats what id do.

[KCmetro]

A drawback to using a workaround like that is going through trouble to recover things when a drive dies.

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, KCmetro said:

So the JBOD approach is like turning RAID on its side, it sounds like.

 

[d1][d2]

becomes

[x1w1][x2w2]

(x=linux,w=windows)

then turn x1x2 into raid1 in linux

then turn w1w2 into raid1 in windows

 

or is it different?

 

Yep thats how id do that.

[KCmetro]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yep thats how id do that.

...hmm, okay, I'll keep considering and googling, and if still no luck with mobo raid, I might end up doing that. At the end of the day, I might be so tired of all of it I might just say screw it and end up not even splitting them up. lol ...but in the meantime, the googling continues.

[KCmetro]

1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

 

- Get a hardware raid card, a dell h700 is about 60 on ebay and very good.

 

...or... I might do that. (well maybe or maybe not that specific card, but getting a card is a thought)

[KCmetro]

I got it working!

 

Previously, I had all the drive slots enabled for RAID, but some of them become unavailable when enabling both the SSDs and the HDDs, and I had the 2 HDDs (for RAID) plugged in the slots that reached beyond that number. I didn't want to bother with replugging them in, so...

 

I disabled all of the unused drive slots, re-enabled RAID mode (including for the SSDs even though they're not actually RAID (the HDDs are)), restarted and...

 

BAM!

 

M2 SSD (Windows 10) now boots with mobo raid and recognizes the HDD raid1

 

SATA SSD (Linux) now boots with mobo raid and recognizes the HDD raid1

 

I went ahead and took half the raid in Windows, set it up like I originally wanted.

 

Next up is setting up the other half of the raid in Linux.