Recent content by 00GhostConn

Out of curiosity... Do you have your SATA ports set as raid instead of ahci. One other thing it could be is change from legacy to UEFI or viseverse

Thanks for the reply. I already formatted the drive as NTFS and set it as gpt. The drive is recognized in windows and is functional. I have the initilization set as (background). After nearly 12 hours it's at 13%. I wanted to start transfering over some files however I'm unsure if it's safe to...

Hello, I recently setup a raid 5 using a highpoint 2720 8 port controller with 7 WD red 4tb drives. I seem to have the drive working correctly in windows 10. I'm afraid to start transfering data to the array because it's not initilized?. I have never dealt with a raid 5 configuration before only...

Hey thanks for the reply. Yes raid is a must as I will have redundancy in the event of a failure. That's why I prefer using raid 5 as I can have a single drive fail. Replace,rebuild, good to go... I use Western digital red Nas series drives so the odds of them failing are slim. The other main...

Hello all, I'm currently in the process of building a home media server. I will be running a raid 5 configuration with 8 4tb hard drives. Im currently using a vantech ugt-st644r controller card, I plan on erasing the current array before upgrading. My question is can I use 2 identical raid...

Hello all I'm new to this forum. I hope someone can give me some insight to my dilemma. I have a fair amount of content that I would like to have access to anywhere in the world anytime without complex problems arising. I want to keep it as simple as possible however I don't mind putting in some...