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Setting up RAID 1

BlueWiszard
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I am having a hard time getting my PC to boot when trying to set up RAID 1. I have a NVMe M.2 drive to boot from, and 2 SATA drives I'm trying to set up in RAID 1. When I go through and configure RAID 1, and reboot, the system either needs to "be repaired" or will fail and restart. What do I have to do? Yes I'm aware RAID doesn't count as a backup.

Motherboard - ASUS Prime H270M Plus

NVMe M.2 - Samsung 960 Evo

SATA Drives - Seagate Barracuda and Ironwolf

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Is the operating system on the M.2 drive?

Are you setting up a hardware RAID or software RAID?

What operating system?

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3 minutes ago, BlueWiszard said:

The OS is on the M.2, and it's Win 10. I'm attempting to set up RAID through BIOS.

don't use raid in the mother board, its sucks. Use storage spaces in windows or zfs/btrfs in linux.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

don't use raid in the mother board, its sucks. Use storage spaces in windows or zfs/btrfs in linux.

 

 

also you probably shouldn't be using raid, you want to make backups. Raid is for redundancy, backups are for keeping your data safe

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2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

also you probably shouldn't be using raid, you want to make backups. Raid is for redundancy, backups are for keeping your data safe

I'm going for the redundancy, as I know RAID isn't a reliable (if a method at all) backup. I have a NAS already, but want to have a cloned drive ready to go in the event of a failure. It's for a business, so having to migrate data to a drive again on failure isn't my favorite idea.

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Just now, BlueWiszard said:

I'm going for the redundancy, as I know RAID isn't a reliable (if a method at all) backup. I have a NAS already, but want to have a cloned drive ready to go in the event of a failure. It's for a business, so having to migrate data to a drive again on failure isn't my favorite idea.

you want backups not raid then. Just setup a file sync every few hours and your good.

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