First time RAID'er; quick question?

demon8991

demon8991

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Hi all,

I have just ordered two WD Red 3TB drives and i am hoping to put them in a RAID 1 setup.

I have the board listed below in my signiture which has two SATA 3 Intel ports and two SATA 3 Asmedia Ports. I currently have a 128GB M4 in AHCI mode on one of Intel port. Would my best option be to put the two WD 3TB drives on the Asmedia ports in RAID 1?

PS i also plan to RAID 0 my Samsung drives on my remaining SATA 2 ports.
 
According to the specs on the ASUS website, I don't believe the Asmedia ports support any form of RAID, so you would have to put the WD Red's on the intel controller;

Intel® Z77 chipset :
2 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), gray
4 x SATA 3Gb/s port(s), blue
Support Raid 0, 1, 5, 10
Supports Intel® Smart Response Technology, Intel® Rapid Start Technology, Intel® Smart Connect Technology *5
ASMedia® PCIe SATA controller : *6
2 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), navy blue
 
LFletcher said:
According to the specs on the ASUS website, I don't believe the Asmedia ports support any form of RAID, so you would have to put the WD Red's on the intel controller;

Intel® Z77 chipset :
2 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), gray
4 x SATA 3Gb/s port(s), blue
Support Raid 0, 1, 5, 10
Supports Intel® Smart Response Technology, Intel® Rapid Start Technology, Intel® Smart Connect Technology *5
ASMedia® PCIe SATA controller : *6
2 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), navy blue
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Hmmm will that affect the speed of my SSD?

Concorde Rules said:
Can I ask why your bothering with RAID 1?
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Becauase I have two 1TB drives and I need more space as my steam folder is now maxed one of them out, so i wanted to double my space, not too fussed about reliability because if the worst comes to the worst i can redownload.
 
Concorde Rules said:
I was talking about RAID 1 the WD Reds.

They are your backup drives, are they not?
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Sorry I confused myself then!

Well they will be used to store all my music, film and photos. I only have these in one location as they are very large so i thought RAID 1 would be my best option as it will act as a backup will it not?
 
Raid 1 will protect you from a drive failure, which is a very rare event. It won't protect against any other form of data loss such as a virus, data corruption, file system errors for example. As any changes will be made to both disks. What you need is a decent back up plan if you are worried about data loss. Using 1 drive to store the data and the other drive to back it up to is a far better idea in my mind, as it will protect against hardware failure and against anything else that could go wrong on the main data drive.

If you are intent on going for a raid approach then I'd just use windows raid (mirror volume i think it is called). As long as the raid will never have an OS on it and you will only ever access the data via Windows.
 
demon8991 said:
Sorry I confused myself then!

Well they will be used to store all my music, film and photos. I only have these in one location as they are very large so i thought RAID 1 would be my best option as it will act as a backup will it not?
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I know it's already been mentioned, but RAID will only protect against a drive failure and isn't a substitute for a backup. As already suggested it may be better to not use RAID1 and have one drive for the data and the other to back it up.

Also make sure with the RAID0 setup that you truly can lose everything on both drives in case of a failure to one of them.
 
Clav said:
Raid 1 will protect you from a drive failure, which is a very rare event. It won't protect against any other form of data loss such as a virus, data corruption, file system errors for example. As any changes will be made to both disks. What you need is a decent back up plan if you are worried about data loss. Using 1 drive to store the data and the other drive to back it up to is a far better idea in my mind, as it will protect against hardware failure and against anything else that could go wrong on the main data drive.

If you are intent on going for a raid approach then I'd just use windows raid (mirror volume i think it is called). As long as the raid will never have an OS on it and you will only ever access the data via Windows.
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LFletcher said:
I know it's already been mentioned, but RAID will only protect against a drive failure and isn't a substitute for a backup. As already suggested it may be better to not use RAID1 and have one drive for the data and the other to back it up.

Also make sure with the RAID0 setup that you truly can lose everything on both drives in case of a failure to one of them.
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Thanks for your help guys.

I think i will go with this option as it sounds like the best plan really, as what i am after is very simple anyway!
 
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