Anyone use Raid on an Asus P6TD Delux

sketchy · 21 Apr 2010 at 17:20

Hi all

I have recently build my new machine and am now looking to upgrade my storage.

I have a P6TD Delux MOBO and i want to use 3 one TB drives in a raid 5 for HD Video porduction. Is the raid on this MOBO Hardware or software. Does it use Main CPU resorses to run. Is it reliable. Has anyone succsesfully recoverd from a single drive failiure if it is software based raid 5.

Any advice or experience will be much appreciated.

Thanks

sketchy · 26 Apr 2010 at 19:16

If no one uses Raid on a P6td delux anynone use it on any other asus boards that use the same controler or chipset

Thanks

Simon42 · 26 Apr 2010 at 21:48

I use RAID on this board - its just the standard Intel ICH10R southbridge RAID. I use RAID 0 (with plenty of total partition backups

) and as usual with ICH10R based RAID its reliable.

I've only used RAID 5 on dedicated controllers so cannot compare performance or recovery with the Intel chipset variety.

Biffa · 26 Apr 2010 at 22:57

ICH10R is "fakeraid" 90% of the functionality is in the windows driver. If you want a proper raid card you'll need to spend £100 or more.

jbloggs · 27 Apr 2010 at 12:51

If write speeds are not terribly important, then the ICH10R (software implementation of RAID, thus CPU will do parity calculation when using RAID5) will be fine for RAID5, however, if you need good write speeds, then you need to look at a (true) hardware (onboard processor/ram) RAID card...

Simon42 · 27 Apr 2010 at 17:49

jbloggs said:
however, if you need good write speeds, then you need to look at a (true) hardware (onboard processor/ram) RAID card...

This is why I've only ever used the chipset raid for simple striped and/or mirrored RAID levels. Although I am presuming the simpler overhead of those means less difference between dedicated RAID controllers and onboard chipset varieties - I'll have to test that some time!

MaxP779 · 27 Apr 2010 at 19:18

I gather all these built in mobo RAID solutions are not true hardware RAID and are mostly software. I just used the software raid in windows server 2008 for my RAID 5 home server. If the mobo broke and i was using its built in RAID im screwed however if the mobo breaks or windows gets corrupted its ok because i can simply replace the broken mobo or reinstall windows and the new install will recognise the old ones RAID 5 array. At least thats what i was told anyway, hopefully i wont have to put it into practice anytime soon.

Simon42 · 27 Apr 2010 at 21:05

MaxP779 said:
If the mobo broke and i was using its built in RAID im screwed

Not if you could use a replacement mobo with the same chipset and in the case of Intel's ICHxR chipset the RAID is compatible over quite a number of versions of the chipset.