Can I RAID 3TB hard drives with this motherboard?
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it not difficult to build a raid 5 and windows server supports software raid 5, but without proper card you may have hard time rebuilding it on consumer level drives;
That is why we have raid 6...
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You should be able to implement RAID1 within windows. I've never done, so there are others on here that could walk you through it.
Wait for a sale on an N40L, they've been $200 shipped in the...
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Link please? Would be nice to see a hardware raid controller with power backup and EFI/NCQ for less $50.
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yes - raid 5 = can continue to function with the loss of any 1 disk, at the cost of the capacity of 1 disk
raid 6 = can continue to function with the loss of any 2 disks, at the cost of the...
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it has its own power if maintained properly thus allowing it to hold data when a crash occurs, plus it will take the load off your desktop except its mostly used in servers.
Can I RAID 3TB hard drives with this motherboard?
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Why would this device make the system better? I just want storage/backup where if one drive fails, I can exchange it and it will recover the missing portions of the files. It's not for a server or...
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I Paid ~ 60 for my board with 6 Sata 2 and 2 Sata 3 ports , but I am have microcenter / Frys around.
It was after rebate and microcenter bundle discount.
Microcenter has intel / amd bundles for...
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please delete... double post
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Would the complications be as bad if it were 1.5TB hard drives? Maybe I would use those instead since I already have three? I only got the 3TB drives because they were $85 each and I didn't want to...
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EBay dude! Last time I posted a link, I got a warning, isnt that enough?
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I'll say no.
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I am wondering if it is possible to RAID5 four 3TB hard drives on my Asus M4A87TD EVO. I assumed I could until someone else mentioned that a motherboard might have a 2.2TB cap. I sent an e-mail to...
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Buy a RAID controller card with lots of cache and a battery - your system will be a lot better. You can get a decent one on Ebay for less that $50.
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you need raid 10 for high IO like production database in 24x7 ; you can spread read / writes between heads/drives and you can hot swap bad disks.
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Is rebuilding the RAID really that stressful where it is likely to kill another drive during the process? This isn't going to be something that I'm running 24/7
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You can check out Flexraid or unraid. Both are commercial software-based raid products aiming to improve the inconvenience of the traditional raid maintenance. I have kept an eye on the development...
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yes, plan on either a UPS or a raid card with a battery (or both) - the server editions of windows also do software raid (5), but in general a dedicated raid card is superior in every way except...
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Since no one has said it yet, RAID IS NOT A BACKUP SOLUTION! It's a redundancy solution. It'll help in the event of a drive failure (no downtime), but will not at all protect your data from being...
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RAID 5 is not difficult. I have run hardware RAID 5 on IDE drives and it was a breeze to implement and saved my data when one of the drives failed.
Lots of free raid software is available. As...
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I guess I didn't know raid5 was so difficult.
Is there any free raid software available? One of the motherboard downloads on the website is specific to raid...is that what you're talking about?...
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for raid5 you need to have a really good controller; you should go with raid 1.
you mobo should support raid 1
it may take a day or two to rebuild raid5 with 3TB drives;
with really long rebuild...
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Really, that's f-ed up?You could post a product description.
OP, your mobo does not support RAID5 out of the box. You would have to implement either software RAID or get a hardware RAID card.
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I don't think I asked this yet. Why the need for a UPS if I want to implement RAID5? Does this type of setup cause power failures or is it a just in case thing? I have an APC battery backup surge...
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Battery backup = UPS. Sounds like you're already covered, but you should calculate out your load to be sure it's big enough.
RAID5 is not very tolerant of sudden power loss. So if you're in the...
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this type of raid implementation does not change power usage, but a power outage can cause a lot more damage (as in break the entire array and lose all the data on it)
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Alright I read up more on the different RAID arrays. Would RAID6 be a better option since that uses two drives for redundancy? Could I add a drive later on to work with the array or would I have to...
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I want some form of backup for my DVD and Blu-ray rips and stuff other than simply having multiple copies on different hard drives. With the size of these files, cloud storage doesn't really seem...
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good raid controller for 6 ports around $50; let me know if you find one.
you can try to run software raid 6 base on FreeNAS ZFS-z2 but you need have a separate box (NAS)
let's step back ... why...
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it involves re-writing the entire disk (possibly twice), and for "green" drives which were not intended for such write-heavy use, it could kill them
as for adding a 5th drive into an existing...
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Backup – disaster recovery
Raid – system availability.
Backups are handled on different / separate hardware;
RAID runs on the same hardware.
If you delete file from RAID you can recover from...
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Ah okay this helps me better understand where people are coming from. For my purposes though, I'm not worried about accidentally deleting a file. More concerned of a crashing hard drive. Since RAID5...
