URGENT RAID setup Q . . . .

khushy

khushy

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is an onboard Marvell RAID controller on my Asus P5WD2E up to the job providing a boot array as I cant seem to get my PCI SATA RAID card to work properly!!!!

khushy
 
LOL - I can easily go and buy another card tomorrow but its probably more like pilot error!!!!!

Just cant get it to see both disks - will keep trying me thinks!

Thanks anyway - but if the onboard Marvell works fine - dont see the point in a card?!?!?!?

Khushy
 
Me neither, but I only went over to Raid recently, from what i know you will see a benefit in speed using a dedicated card rather than the on board but maybe someone else can clarify further
 
PaulyD said:
Me neither, but I only went over to Raid recently, from what i know you will see a benefit in speed using a dedicated card rather than the on board but maybe someone else can clarify further
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PCI card can't give any speed benefit because PCI is too slow for such use.


Would be best if all manufacturers included block diagram to motherboard manuals, for example at least some Asus P5Q models have one NIC in PCI and other in PCIe bus so there's speed difference between them.
 
I am building a home/office server . . .

with 2 x 1TB RE3's - speed isnt really a major factor in the build - but reliability IS thats why this time I am RAID1'ing the boot drives to create a (hopefully) always up server.

  • Home Office File Server
  • Music Server
  • Always on Internet Client/Server Database

Currrently we have a server that has 2 x HDD's not in RAID but a backup is done everyday on to HDD2 and also down to my PC (the server is in the loft) which has a 2 x 750Gb RAID 1 backup array!

Just trying to future-proof our storage needs - am in the middle of FLAC/Ripping my entire CD collection - about half way through and 250Gb in!!!!

khushy
 
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