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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!
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.
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...
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.
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
What kind of utility are you looking for exactly?
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
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.
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) .....
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?
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