Cannot set up RAID!?! Help-usss?

monkeypants · 19 Jan 2006 at 21:22

I cannot for the life of me set up RAID0. I've tried all the SATA ports, and all the options I think. Can someone point me in the direction of a guide on how to do it?

I'm trying to set up a RAID0 array, and then install windows on it. I can do the RAID setup, but after that, the windows installation doesn't find any HDDs. Why? :confused:

monkeypants · 19 Jan 2006 at 21:43

Oh gimps. I didn't even realise I had this floppy.

I thought because the BIOS saw it windows would. But no. Anyway, thanks dude.

monkeypants · 19 Jan 2006 at 22:02

Nah, it's on floppy. It's copying the files now.

I do feel a bit silly for not noticing I had a driver disk, but I'm having one of those days.

monkeypants · 20 Jan 2006 at 11:40

OK back on topic: Stripe Size was 128KB, as it was the one it said to use.

EDIT 2: Should I start again with stripe size 16KB?

Also: My non-RAID disk isn't recognised anymore by windows. That's with the drivers installed and trying it in both Sata controllers.

Is there some rule that says you can't have a non-RAID disk with a RAID array?

EDIT: Fixed, it hadn't been initialised in Disk Management

monkeypants · 21 Jan 2006 at 20:18

I re-did it to 16Kb Stripe. Played Far Cry and saw no real loading time decrease (I don't think it was any faster, maybe even a little slower).

Now, I am prepared to start all over again with a 32Kb or 64Kb stripe length if I will see a MARKED improvement in loading times.

Which one is reccommended by you?

monkeypants · 21 Jan 2006 at 20:34

noxidjkram@hotm said:
See smids reply about 3 or 4 up.

Yars, I've seen it, I just want to know whether I'll see a decent speed boost or not. Windows loading super fast is rather cool, if there's no gain I'll leave it as it is.

monkeypants · 21 Jan 2006 at 20:53

I'll keep the 16Kb for a while then and see how other games load.

Specifically looking for offline single player loading times. How were they in HL2?

monkeypants · 21 Jan 2006 at 21:38

I have 2Gb, I'm installing HL2 now, so I'll try it and see.

EDIT: Initial loading shows no boost. Am I expecting too much?

monkeypants · 21 Jan 2006 at 23:42

Also: How do I find out whether it's using NCQ or not?

EDIT: Seems I need to use AHCI. When I tried that it errored loading the OS. Can I use both RAID and AHCI?

monkeypants · 22 Jan 2006 at 09:01

All my HDDs support NCQ. Can I use NCQ on the RAIDed drives?
The manual says I need to use AHCI, but I don't know if I can use RAID when using that.