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RAID on ABIT KT7A-RAID MOBO
Name: mac4_life Date: April 27, 2005 at 06:00:59 Pacific OS: 2k Pro CPU/Ram: Athlon 700, 256MB
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Hello, I am looking at setting up RAID on my ABIT KT7A-RAID mobo, but I am a newbie with RAID, and need some guidance. Has anybody ever set up RAID on such a motherboard? Do I need drives that are the same size? Can I configure RAID after Windows is installed? Thanks!
Name: mac4_life Date: April 27, 2005 at 11:12:56 Pacific
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I am trying to make a file server in my house. I wanted to use RAID so I had some experience with it, as right now I know what it does, but that is about it. I will read that link. Thanks for your help!
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Response Number 4
Name: StuartS Date: April 27, 2005 at 14:48:44 Pacific
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I would endorse Ham30's recommendation. The KT7A only supports RAID 0 and RAID I.
RAID O is a disaster waiting to happen as data is shared between two different disks. One disk fails and all your data is gone, everything with little hope of recovery. There is no redundancy although is does speed things up a bit.
RAID 1 Also writes data to two disk but the same data is written to to both disks. This means that disk reading and writing is a bit slower as everything has to be done twice. That means that if one disk fails, the data is intact on the other. It is used on mission critical systems where down-time recovering from a failed disk could be a disaster.
The same thing can be achieved by the home user with a good backup regime. Downtime restoring a backup is not likely to be critical.
Stuart
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Response Number 5
Name: mac4_life Date: April 28, 2005 at 10:48:00 Pacific
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KT7A-RAID supports RAID 0+1, or so says the manual. That was what I was wanting to go with.
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Response Number 6
Name: StuartS Date: April 28, 2005 at 12:07:31 Pacific
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In that case you will need four identical disk drives. This will give you the space of two with the speed of one.
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