class! for me sins i have a failed HDD in my raid array!
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At least its a mirrored one 
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Morning mate, nope, i have the RAID array in the bios and that comes back with the error message before windows boots and when i go into the array for that set up drive there's just a few ???? and it says offline/disconnected. it's on port 5 of the RAID connection so looks like I'll have to pull the rig apart this afternoon and have a look to see what's going on, could be a failed power connector to the drive i guess, hope so rather than a failed drive.......
OK back from the shops with a replacement and popped it in and she's come back to life (so it was defo the HDD that had failed on sata port 5, how ever i get the critical message and press CTRL+F to enter the RAID array in the bios but i don't see any rebuild? i can boot into windows (which I'm in now) i was under the impression that if a HDD failed in the mirror then putting a replacement drive in the array would "rebuild" it's self....do i have to enable the disk 1st in windows disk management?
I can get into the raid array (screen shot attached) but i thought it would have took care of it in the raid BIOS?
Any tips/ideas?
Thanks
I can get into the raid array (screen shot attached) but i thought it would have took care of it in the raid BIOS?
Any tips/ideas?
Thanks
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Format the drive in disk management and reboot to see if it starts to rebuild the array. But it looks like it doesn't do it automatically. I believe RAID 5 would though?
To be honest, the CMOS battery failing on my dad's rig put me off software RAID as it took the boot RAID0 array with it (fortunately I'd set him up with a non-RAID drive for storage so he didn't loose any data).
To be honest, the CMOS battery failing on my dad's rig put me off software RAID as it took the boot RAID0 array with it (fortunately I'd set him up with a non-RAID drive for storage so he didn't loose any data).
Hi Pob, tried mate and it wouldn't, just kept firing me with the "critical" when it was booting, so had to use the "software" raid that came with the board, picture attached.....
Bloke in the shop told me about RAID 5, redundancy as well as spanning......might give it a whirl like, still disappointed at the RAID bios not bothering it's arse in having any "rebuild" automatically option in it...! if i hadn't of had the RAID software that you see with the mother board then i would have had to do it in windows disk management! disappointed to say the least as what's the point in having a RAID bios that all it can do is tell you that there's a hard drive failure!
Bloke in the shop told me about RAID 5, redundancy as well as spanning......might give it a whirl like, still disappointed at the RAID bios not bothering it's arse in having any "rebuild" automatically option in it...! if i hadn't of had the RAID software that you see with the mother board then i would have had to do it in windows disk management! disappointed to say the least as what's the point in having a RAID bios that all it can do is tell you that there's a hard drive failure!
Even an array setup in the BIOS is classed as "software" RAID as it uses the CPU to do the calculations.
If you want hardware RAID, I can personally recommend the "entry level" LSI MegaRAID 9240-4i (although it has gone up in price since I bought mine). With an 8X PCI-e 2.0 interface, you won't get bottlenecks from having It's what's currently running my C300 SSDs. If you need more than 4 drives by using a SAS expander or SATA port multiplier you can connect up to 16 drives. Alternatively the LSI 9240-8i may be a cheaper option than expanders and multipliers.
If going for a hardware RAID add in card you need to take into account the PCIe bandwidth, which can cause a bottleneck.
If you want hardware RAID, I can personally recommend the "entry level" LSI MegaRAID 9240-4i (although it has gone up in price since I bought mine). With an 8X PCI-e 2.0 interface, you won't get bottlenecks from having It's what's currently running my C300 SSDs. If you need more than 4 drives by using a SAS expander or SATA port multiplier you can connect up to 16 drives. Alternatively the LSI 9240-8i may be a cheaper option than expanders and multipliers.
If going for a hardware RAID add in card you need to take into account the PCIe bandwidth, which can cause a bottleneck.
as ever appreciated! OK totally with you with the "software" array then, i guess the only option I'm going to have is a hard ware card as you say if i want "true" RAID. (think we discussed it before regarding it having it's own battery backed up bios some time in the past)
All back together now and working so cool, still gutted at having to take a HDD back to the shops as it'll fall under warranty and I'll get a replacement etc. but that means that me drives going back to the manufacturers and there either going to use the parts or "refurb" it....not that bothered about what's on it like, just the last 10 years of "stuff" lol.....but hey what can i do, i ain't going to leave a broken drive just sitting doing nothing.
And yeah, could do with out any bottle necks as to speak if they are on a PCI RAID Card as that would be disastrous with the set up i have now (you followed a few of me threads and that about the bottle neck i was getting with an old board not being sata III)
Thanks again, i might go and have a look for one of the cards as you have suggested....
All back together now and working so cool, still gutted at having to take a HDD back to the shops as it'll fall under warranty and I'll get a replacement etc. but that means that me drives going back to the manufacturers and there either going to use the parts or "refurb" it....not that bothered about what's on it like, just the last 10 years of "stuff" lol.....but hey what can i do, i ain't going to leave a broken drive just sitting doing nothing.
And yeah, could do with out any bottle necks as to speak if they are on a PCI RAID Card as that would be disastrous with the set up i have now (you followed a few of me threads and that about the bottle neck i was getting with an old board not being sata III)
Thanks again, i might go and have a look for one of the cards as you have suggested....
