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jbell
12-31-01, 02:37 AM
I have reconfigured my rig (not by choice) so now i have my 40gig Quantum Fireball on EIDE 1 and both my 40G Seagate Barracuda running on my highpoint onboard raid...


what is raid 0 and raid 1?? what should I do to configure it - what works best. I want it to be seen as one big 80Gig so I have better transfer rates...


thanks!

Jon
12-31-01, 10:56 PM
RAID 0 is disk striping. Data is written simultaneously to both disks for maximum I/O throughput. There is no data redundancy in this mode.

RAID 1 is mirroring. Data is simultaneously written to both disks in whole, not striped. Total disk space is only half and performance is basically the same as a single disk. If one drive happens to fail, however, the other disk contains a mirror image for redundancy. Upon replacing the disk, the other can be regenerated with the same data.

If you are looking for performance, RAID 0 is the way you want to go. Setup is extremely simple and your EPoX manual can guide you through it. The only setting I can think of that they may not go into detail about is the stripe size. This can be set to 64K (default) for probably the most fool-proof RAID performance. 16K and 32K will also work fine but I have always perferred 64K as it works the best with larger files (1MB+ range).

Set in RAID 0, your drive will appear as a single 80GB drive.

jbell
01-01-02, 03:46 AM
I got highpoint all installed and I can see the drives through explorer.... but within the raid software I can not select a drive - when I go to raid 0 - it says to select drives but none are listed...

Jon
01-01-02, 02:15 PM
I've never used the Windows software to set it up, I use the BIOS to do it. You're probably going to have to go in there and fiddle around a bit.

If the drives aren't being detected when you startup during the HPT POST screen then there's some other problem. The HPT BIOS can be accessed by pressing CTRL+H (sometimes CTRL+U) at the same time during the HPT POST screen.

jbell
01-01-02, 02:41 PM
I went into the bios - very easy to setup,

before I could see the drives in explorer and they responded very slow - one keep giving me an error and would o dnothing - won't even let me format!

after configuring my highpoint bios - I can't see the drives at all.... what gives?



Joe

**edit**

I used Fdisk from Win95 diskette, recreated the Raid array with that - Fdisk found it as one 80Gig drive so I set a prim partition to it and formatting right now to NTFS.

I will update later if ti worked or not.


***re-edit***

OK format worked this time! I have a nice big 74.4gig HD - recommend any good cheap/free utility tester? My Norton 4.0 doesn't plat nice with Win 2K PRO

Jon
01-01-02, 05:13 PM
What kind of utility are you looking for exactly?

jbell
01-01-02, 05:15 PM
Originally posted by Jon
What kind of utility are you looking for exactly?

I got snadra standard - totally forgot about it - did a test on the raid array while downloading updates, got a really poor score! gonna have to retest later.


Joe

Jon
01-01-02, 05:20 PM
Sandra reports RAID performance tests wrong 9 out of 10 times in my experience and this is with 5 different systems I have equipped with a RAID 0 array.

Best is HDTach or ATTO Disk Suite. Asearch in the forums should help you to find either for download...I've posted ATTO 2 or 3 times and prefer it over anything else...it's free too.

jbell
01-01-02, 05:48 PM
Originally posted by Jon
Sandra reports RAID performance tests wrong 9 out of 10 times in my experience and this is with 5 different systems I have equipped with a RAID 0 array.

Best is HDTach or ATTO Disk Suite. Asearch in the forums should help you to find either for download...I've posted ATTO 2 or 3 times and prefer it over anything else...it's free too.

thank you very much - doing the search now!!!

Joe

**edit**

I found the thread here (http://forums.overclockers.ws/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47446&highlight=ATTO) .....

jbell
01-02-02, 01:39 AM
ok how do I change the ''role'' of my Win2K rig from desktop computer to network server? and how do I enable DMA on my drives with 2K pro also?


Tweakui doesn't install on 2K pro so I am having trouble modifing it to get the raid to work faster...


how do I fix this?