raid

With the upcoming Black Friday/Cyber Monday, I finally decided to pull the trigger on a big data consolidation I needed to do for a long time and got myself a RAID enclosure, with an upcoming purchase of a couple of HDDs for it, so I thought now is the best time to ask a few questions to make...

So, I've been running my system off a 1TB SSD for some time now, and I want to expand my storage without just swapping out the original SSD and having to go through the trouble of reinstalling all of my stuff. My motherboard has several M.2 slots, so I have been considering RAID, but haven't...

INTEL chipsets come with Intel Rapid Storage Technology RAID drivers. So, provided there are enough drives installed, RAID is available right away. Is the same available for AMD CPUs (i.e. their chipsets and motherboards)? If so, what's its brand name?

We just purchased a Dell PowerEdge R360 Server with a BOSS -N1. The performance is not quite what I expected, and I'm having a hard time finding reviews online to compare against. I am getting 1400MB/s READ and only 222MB/s WRITE. Can anyone confirm whether this is normal?

Long story short. I had Windows 11 installed on this very same system with 2 2TB NVME drives in Raid-0 Using VMD and intel RST. I decided to switch to arch linux, and disabled RST, and instead left the two drives in their default modes. I installed arch linux on an mdadm (software) raid-0 and...

I've got a HPE ML350 GEN9 Tower server which is fairly quiet during the winter. Like, my laptop and PC are louder than it. During the summer however, things are getting out of hand. There are two areas that are problematic. These happens to be the VR P1 location at the back of the case -...

Hello, i want 4 x LFF HDDs (with raid 5) for my server (database usage. I know I can use SSDs, but I need LFF for some reason. I have two options : Option 1 : 4 x IBM 8 TB SAS 7.2K 12G (Refurbished) Option 2 : 4 x WD DC HC520 12 TB SAS 12G (New) I asked somewhere about those WD HDDs, and they...

So I purchased a Yottamaster external RAID / JBOD box that connects to my PC (Win 11) via USB C. I purchased a USB C card from Amazon and installed it. Looking at Device Manager in Windows, it appears that both the RAID box and the USB card are being recognized, however, Disk Manager isn't...

Hello, I have a system with an M.2 SSD and an HDD. I have Windows 11 installed on the M.2 SSD. The HDD is empty and I would like to use it for simple data storage (no RAID). The issue is that I don't see the HDD in Windows (including in Disk Management). I do see some references to it in BIOS...

Hi, I was wondering if someone could help with a situation i have. My motherboard died about a week ago so i took the opportunity to rebuild and move from Win10 pro to 11 pro. On Win10 I had 2 drives set up in software raid (1?) so that they were simply mirrored. In moving to the new system, i...

I've recently seemed to have slightly short circuited my MOBO (ASRock H670 PG Riptide), and have decided to buy the same MB, as i have been very satisfied with it, but also because i would like to easily transfer the RAID array (Raid 5) and not have to reinstall everything else. It is plugged...

I have a synology ds920+ in and have replaced several drives and have a collection of 8tb Seagate compute (yes i know some are smr, hourly i can still use them?) and Toshiba n300 drives and an ironwolf. I wanted to create storage that i can put together a collection of retro files on (all kinds...

Hi. Hoping someone can shed some light on my ongoing noob issues with a lacie 2big raid set up. I'm a filmmaker with a tonne of data spread across different ironwolf drives - I've been using 2big but to be honest it is causing me as many problems as it is solving (yes, human error probably at...

I built a new system with a Asus ROG STRIX B550-F. AMD Ryzen 7 5700G. 64GB ram. Set up with existing Windows 10 drive that I cloned from old system. Everything working great except the drive is a WD Red and slow. So I put in two Samsung 990 Pro with heatsink 1 TB. Had to install a stand alone...

Hello can i ask for some recommendation on what motherboard has the best raid support? The most ideal setup would be 4 m.2 NVME slots which i plan to mirror RAID ( 2x mirror and another 2x mirror, 2 separate mirror RAID). But it would seem hard to find a mobo with 4 nvme slots so instead i...

I understand the differences between AHCI and RAID. At least, I think I do. Currently, my Windows 11 PC's SATA mode is set to 'RAID on.' I am not interested in creating a RAID volume. Not now, and not likely in the future. Are there any advantages to switching my SATA mode to AHCI? And are...

Brand new Optiplex small form factor. Got the machine and needed to add my 1Tb M2 nvme which uses a Pci-e slot encapsulation. The machine booted to windows and did not recognize my added drive. Rebooted and entered the BIOS to find (IMHO Odd) Raid mode ON. Wondered, and did a little research...

I'm looking for a minipc I can use as a small office server in Raid1. We have an IT group that oversees about 6 desk minipcs, but the Server is running 2012 R2 and we need to upgrade the server computer & server software. Since the IT company also does backups I wanted to have the ability for a...

I am looking for a cost effective RAID Card to use for: Samsung 990 PRO 2TB Samsung V NAND 3-bit MLC PCIe Gen 4 Any thoughts. I do not want to spend $600 on a card if at all possible.

I have two 9260-8i (one an IBM OEM) and I got a 9266-8i a few months ago to upgrade one. Built a new RAID 5 and been running it since April with no problems. Yesterday I was streaming a video from the RAID, and setting up some downloads for it, which I've done many times in the past. This time...

Now, the PC will only boot into BIOS (I'm guessing it is waiting for me to re-select RAID instead of AHCI?). Several months ago, I purchased this TUF full tower PC off Craigslist. System specs: ASUS Sabertooth X99 i7 5960x 2x GTX 1080 SLI 4x 16GB (64GB) G Skill Ripjaws 2133 (2400.xmp)...

Hello, i'm thinking of ways add more storage to my PC and was checking PCI-E to M2 SATA adapters like this one My question is how many PCI-E lanes these adapters use, i read that SATA does not use pci-e lanes, read that it uses 1 lane, i got very confused. Do i need to bifurcate my pci-e slot...

Hi everyone, I have 2 mechanical hard disks from Seagate (each 2TB) in RAID0. The RAID configuration is achieved through the motherboard (MSI MEG Z690 ACE), not from windows. I've decided to update the motherboard BIOS, going from 7D27v18 → 7D27v1A. After completing the update, there's a...

Hello everyone, my name is Tommy. I am a data analyst in a railway safety company. We measure data on the railway that is then used by customers to ensure preventive safety. However, I am having a problem. Because it concerns large numbers of data, we receive physical disks that we then have to...

Hi, I can't setup a raid because, if i set the SATA Mode to RAID from AHCI, after i make a restart then my PC completely stuck on the motherboard splash screen. That means i can't boot to windows or a bootable pendrive, or even back to bios. If i short my cmos pins, and my bios gets resetted...

Hey, I've tried setting up a RAID between two identical SSDs using Disk Management in Windows 10, but it failed for some reason. I've tried removing the mirroring but than Disk Management froze, and after a while I've closed it from Task Manager. Now the SSD won't show up anywhere. BIOS and...

Is it a good idea to have SSD for RAID storage, or am I better still using HDD? I'm considering switching to using SSD in place of my existing HDD. I know it will be more expensive to get them, but will there be excessive wear on using SSD instead of HDD? Is there a continuous read/write when...

So I have a Penguin Relion 1900 1U rack mounted server running CentOS 7 that recently had a hard disk failure. It had 4 hard drives configured in RAID 6. To replace the failed HDD, I powered off the machine, swapped the failed one with a new drive of the same size (4TB) and powered on the...

I had the OS SSD fail, and then a motherboard fail, so now I've got an all new set up but I need to get my archival RAID1 set back up. One of the 2 drives appears to have failed (it's showing only 4gb partition in Gnome disk utility), and I want to rescue what I can from the remaining drive...

weird question Anyone know a good platform that would allow me to create a single virtual volume display from 20+ drives? I don’t actually want to use a raid setup. I LIKE having full control over what disk any one file is on… it gives me the ability to add and remove disks at will and know...

I cleaned my pc then after I try to boot it, it restarts 3 times and then goes to the screen below then I hit F1 then F10 in bios then it will boot successfully to desktop. Then I notice whenever I boot successfully to desktop. my date and time are always wrong even though my time zone is...

I have an Asus TUF Z790 gaming MOBO with an I7 13700K processor. I have 5 drives 1 X 2TB NVMe for system and programs. 2 X 12TB HDDs and 2 X 8TB HDDs. would like to run a hardware RAID1 array on the sets of HDDs. I sleep better at night knowing my important files are safe and redundant. Win11...

Hi, I'm trying to set up a PCIe RAID Controller into a new GIGABYTE B550 Aorus Elite V2 motherboard that I recently bought, and I'm having the following issue: What's expected? - The BIOS of the PCIe RAID Controller itself must show up first before POST. What happens in my case? - It shows...

Hi All, I recently asked a storage question on the forums related to one of my 4 HDDs (in a RAID 5 array) having some uncorrectable sectors after power loss, and subsequently, needing to replace it. I will more than likely be taking the opportunity to upgrade the storage capacity of the array...

Hi All, I am running Windows Server 2019 Standard on my HP Z640 Workstation, and this morning I noticed that my machine had crashed/rebooted. Looking at the logs, it seems that it was a critical kernel-power error, so it must have been a temporary power outage or issue. per usual in these...

Would this B660 motherboard support RAID of 2x NVME drives? I see under the specs it does support RAID, but I am not sure if it is for SATA drives only or NVME drives as well. https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B660M-AORUS-PRO-AX-rev-1x/sp#sp

Hello, I have a problem with my Adaptec 2283400-R. It simply will not show up on my computer. I have an Asus PRIME Z490-A motherboard. I have tried switching the slots. The very confusing thing is that the manual states there is a led that should indicate it is working properly "Heartbeat LED -...

I have an Asus Hypercard installed with Samsung 960 Pro Series - 2TB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD. It was formatted for RAID and became my C:Drive. It crashed and now I would like to know if it is possible to recover the data?

I want to set up 2 external hard drives as the second mirroring the first (drive F should be a mirror of drive E). I want them to still appear as 2 separate drives and I want the mirroring to take place anytime a change is detected in drive E. How do I set this up so that it is done permanatly?

Hi How to rebuild raid 1? I have a Raid PCI card "ST Lab PCIe SATA 6G Raid card 4channel" and 4 disks connected to it. I'm running raid 1 on two of these with 2 x "16TB Toshiba Enterprise MG08 Series MG08ACA16TE 7200RPM 512MB Ent". The disk are new and have worked for 4 days then I got an alarm...