Soldato
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Hello Everyone,
I've got a PC which i use to keep most of my files on and am considering setting up raid 5 in it for some redundancy...
As the PC is only used as a file store write speeds are not a major concern as i understand these are slower with raid 5... I have a Asus M2N-VM DH motherboard with onboard - 4 x Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s support RAID 0, 1, 5, 0+1, JBOD using a JMicron JMB363 controller.
I have a few questions and "what ifs":
What if i use the onboard controller and want to change / upgrade the motherboard, is there any safe way of moving it onto another board without loosing all my data?
What if a hard drive dies, how do it let you know this? I presume it would be the case of replacing it with another drive the same and it will rebuilt the array?
What if i purchased a cheap PCI/ PCI-E raid controller, would this make changing motherboards in the future any more easy?
I'm considering 4x 500GB Drives at mo to give me 1.5TB of usable space.
Thanks,
Michael
I've got a PC which i use to keep most of my files on and am considering setting up raid 5 in it for some redundancy...
As the PC is only used as a file store write speeds are not a major concern as i understand these are slower with raid 5... I have a Asus M2N-VM DH motherboard with onboard - 4 x Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s support RAID 0, 1, 5, 0+1, JBOD using a JMicron JMB363 controller.
I have a few questions and "what ifs":
What if i use the onboard controller and want to change / upgrade the motherboard, is there any safe way of moving it onto another board without loosing all my data?
What if a hard drive dies, how do it let you know this? I presume it would be the case of replacing it with another drive the same and it will rebuilt the array?
What if i purchased a cheap PCI/ PCI-E raid controller, would this make changing motherboards in the future any more easy?
I'm considering 4x 500GB Drives at mo to give me 1.5TB of usable space.
Thanks,
Michael