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How big and how many drive are you guys working with?
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How big and how many drive are you guys working with?
How big and how many drive are you guys working with?
Gents, wonderful thread.
Unfortunately, for some unknown reason I lost my RAID 0. It claims within MSM the drive is "Missing", however, the drive is recognized and comes up as a NON-RAID drive.
Anyone have a way to re-initialize the matrix RAID so I dont have to rebuild? I also moved the drives out to another ICHR and getting the same "Missing drive" error.
Am I poop out of luck and back to a restore? Suggestions/recommendations? Thanks!
You'll need to remove the entire RAID array, then re-create it. Do not format it!!!
Then down load a program called testdisk...
Excellent. This is exactly what I need. It's my OS drive. I sure hope this works, would save me time.
I do have a backup, but it's the beginning of this month, so I would lose a decent amount of data. Worst case scenario now. Thanks and cross your fingers!
Thank you very much fritzman! And thanks for the welcome message
Yes, I was also thinking about doing what you suggested: doing a smaller RAID 0 (lets say 10% ??), for the OS. But then, I do NOT need to do anything different with the rest, I would like to have it in RAID 0 as well (since I have a 3rd disk for backups/images), so.. in this situation, does it have any advantage to use matrix ??? If I just RAID 0 the whole thing.. and make just a smaller partition first, wouldnt it be like short stroking in that partion, and still, having a good performing "normal" RAID 0 in the rest ??
You'll be about to get your data, however you will not be able to boot again...
Testdisk did not find any partitions. No biggie. Been using matrix RAID for a long time, first time I EVER lost data. Thanks for your suggestions!
For enterprise level certainly, and I will go with that on the home level as well, though a R0+1 has the data on both drives in case one craps out on you so you are still a net wash as far as mitigating a complete hdd loss risk.RAID 0 has at least twice the probability of losing data of a single drive. 4 times if you used 4 drives, etc.
Any kind of RAID, no matter how robust, is not an acceptable back up strategy
Thanks for replying I have been doing a lot of reading regarding raid and after my first WD VelociRaptor went dead after 1 yr I decided to look for an alternative setup.Firstly.. a very big W E L C O M E
Those results look great... Everything appears to be as it should, and 7.1 access is also pretty good.
I would suggest you shout yourself a beer!
I'm not suprised that you were inspired... those results are among the best I have seen.
I managed to get the access time down to either a flat 6.0 or 6.1 iirc with my 4 x 1Tb Black W/D's, but don't think I even matched some of the other numbers he got.
I've moved away to a single (for the moment) SSD and the 4 x 1Tb drives as storage alone.