Raid 0 on Asus P5Q

Adam123

Adam123

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Hey people,

i am anxiously awaiting funds of which i already have spent at OCuk as i have a basket saved...

before i spend some serious money @ OCUK (serious for me = £500+)

i am planning on gettting 3 F1's, 2 for Raid 0 and 1 for a "data storage" aka pron drive :P) and use my existing 500GB for a back up of important shizz. so like a manual Raid 0+1 if im not mistaken.

New Asus Xonar 7.1 DX Sound card

AE Aego M 2.1 speakers

Anywhoo, has anyone got a raid 0 set up on asus p5q board, as it already has "Intel® Matrix Storage Technology supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10" i guess there is no need for raid drivers? just change a few bios settings and kabaam?

i have just had a final thought, i have a 500w OCZ StealthXStream ATX2 PSU, maybe i will be pushing it lol......

Any comments would be appreciated LMAO ?
 
Why do you need the 3 drives?

I have 2 drives in my PCs - one is the OS and all my data. The second is a non-RAID back-up drive. I used a piece of software to back up my OS and data from drive 1 to drive 2 once a month.

People seem to forget that if you have a RAID set-up of 2 drives or more if a file becomes corrupted on one drive then it is effectively 'replicated' to the second drive. Thereby, offering you no redundancy from corrupt data but merely from a hard drive failing.

I personally find it makes more sense to have the 2 separate drives and use back-up software to back up the main drive on a regular basis. IMPO you are going for overkill here which is costing you money.

Or you could buy one internal drive and get yourself a nice external portable backup drive?

RAID is over-rated and often wrongly and badly used IMPO.

Just my thoughts. Use your own judgement.
 
Currently using 3*320Gb Sammy F1's, 2 in raid for main PC the other disk acting as media server for the 360.

RAID0 has no redundancy, its for performance, not suitable if your wanting data safety, I have however noticed a great increase in responsiveness of the PC especially noticeable when transferring large files or installing programs.

Why backup the main drive on a regular basis?
have the programs/windows on main drive, Image upon install, have all file storage documents/music mapped to a non raid disc, anything happens restore image everything remains mapped, all back to normal.

I backed imaged my main system drive install on setup, all folders mapped to other drive, data security enough for me there, very little chance of the RAID array failing and a a seperate drive failing at exactly the same time.
 
thats not a bad idea,

so i could have
2 x F1's in raid 0 for os and programs
1 x f1 for my pron and hd films
old one for "My documents" etc
sorted?

i have an external hdd atm, its annoying, so slow when copying 8gb + films lol

I am 3 clicks away from pressing order heheh
 
RAID 0 the 2 as intended

Then the third drive just have that as storeage, map all your my docs/outlook folders to this and you should be fine.

I've had no problems and nice transfer rates with Gb's of files ata time, the HDDs dont seem to get much louder when under strain either.

I recommend Acronis as your imaging software, get your windows install sorted with the basics and yer drivers and stuff, map all your folders to the other drive then make an image of yer system should be <4.5Gb so will fit on a DVD easy and yer set.

Anythin ever goes wrong pop in the acronis disc > restore image, fodlers and everything already mapped and present on second drive, back to normal.
 
Cool - thanks for the advice...

Ordered the above about 10 mins ago (changed the speakers to some logitech silver ones and added some cable tidy stuff :D)

if previous order experience with OCuk is still the same, i shud get it all thursday morning =D
 
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