How to setup RAID 1?

rpstewart · 26 Feb 2007 at 10:33

Can you not just use the mobo CD as is or are the drivers in a compressed format?

Girdag · 26 Feb 2007 at 11:05

ste_bla said:
Don't take this personally but i have this massive gripe about how people thing raid is soo good.. it doesn't protect against hackers, viruses, power surges, fire and so on...

Why not get a external drive (ie usb) and back up the data one a week and place that disk in a safe place? Might be a few more £ but to me its a lot safer

The problem is that I'm very lazy when it comes to backing up. I know I should, I just never get around to it. Automatic backups, while it won't protect against some things, will at least stop me from losing loads of data if there's a hard-drive failure.

Actually, I might get a small external HDD as well, and shove anything REALLY important on there. That'd probably be the best price/laziness/safety combo.

esoteric · 26 Feb 2007 at 13:17

rpstewart said:
Can you not just use the mobo CD as is or are the drivers in a compressed format?

The manual doesnt say that I can, but I popped the CD in and it had a Tip! and refered me to a location on the CD where uncompressed drivers are, I have no idea how things will work with NVSATA/RAID drivers though as on the CD there are only XP and 2k drivers.

My parcel jus arrived aswell, and im wondering will I ever get anything delivered from City Link that is not damaged, this time around my Vista case is cracked and broken in the bottom right corner and the CD holder is broke, so the DvD was sliding freely in the case and there are a couple of light scratches on the surface.

ByteJuggler · 26 Feb 2007 at 14:23

ste_bla said:
Don't take this personally but i have this massive gripe about how people thing raid is soo good.. it doesn't protect against hackers, viruses, power surges, fire and so on...

Why not get a external drive (ie usb) and back up the data one a week and place that disk in a safe place? Might be a few more £ but to me its a lot safer

Yes. It's important to understand that RAID is not about backup, it's about availability. Backup is an issue that needs addressing irrespective of whether you have RAID or not. If you have a certain availability/uptime requirement (24/7 with less than 0.01% downtime or whatever), then RAID is one way to improve the availability of your system. Having it does not then mean you don't have to do backups! Anyone who does so is IMHO conflating 2 very different concerns, with potentially disastrous results. (.e.g runaway virus that deletes files etc. is not dealt with by any type of "availbility" improver like clustering or RAID disks.)

I agree with your frustration though, becuase many people seem to confuse the 2 things. So, at the risk of belaboring the poing: If you want backup, use backup devices/techniques. If you want availability, use RAID or similar techniques. But don't confuse the 2 as being direct alternatives/equivalent to each other as they're not really.

My £0.02