Raiders Of The Lost Data

[mr_anderson187]

ok guysa heres the story, i got 2 40gb (i know theyre small) hdds, and i recently got this radi card for a tennor of the flebay, its a EXTREME 10 RAD VERSION, i duno if its very good or not, but im lookin at raiding these 2 drives, i think its 0 array, the one that speeds up data access, and is good for gamers, b4 i do this tho, im gonna back up my data on another laptop i have knocking about, but is there a guide around that would be helpfull, i have adequeate knowledge like to do it, i was just wondering about how?

THANKS, richard evans

[0iD]

A guide for setting up Raid or a guide for backing up data to your lappy?

[mr_anderson187]

lol, a guide for setting up Raid

[0iD]

Try this: http://www.pctechguide.com/tutorials/RAID.htm

[mr_anderson187]

thgat seems like a good guide, but its for onbaord raid on mobo's, mines a pci card, which would have to be installed first or sumthin, ne other suggestions?

[0iD]

Setting up a PCI raid is prettymuch the same, just make sure u set your boot sequence to something like floppy>CD rom>scsi so it sees your raid card as the boot divice & not IDE0

[madwelshboy]

Hi mr_anderson187,

Just a tip tho, those x2 40gb hdd's, i hope that they are the same manufacturer and model type otherwise you might struggle to get them raided ?!?

[mr_anderson187]

dum bumidy bum bum bum, lol nah a maxtor fireball,and a ibm desktar, i didnt think it mattered, how can u set ure opc to boot from a pci device, is it not only flpoppy , cd, or hdd?

[0iD]

Normally when you raid drives they are identical. Same read/write speed etc. But it 'might' work or it may not.
In the BOIS, probably in advanced options, set you can set the boot device/sequence. Should give you many options. Also have a floppy with the relevant drivers on handy as it's essential to load these at the right time whilst installing windows.

[Spud1]

the bios probably wont have an option to boot from raid - mine doesnt. I just disable all boot options in the bios and my raid controller kicks in automatically. I'm using an onboard solution tho so not sure if its the same

[0iD]

Bios normally sees the raid as SCSI 0 as opposed to IDE 0. But whatever works

[mr_anderson187]

well im gonna reformat tomoro, cos i got inundated with we turd programs so im gona reformat them is it that uhave to install both hdd's with os's to do this, and will thsi mirroring thing improve my pc performance when playing games?

[Blub2k]

well im gonna reformat tomoro, cos i got inundated with we turd programs so im gona reformat them is it that uhave to install both hdd's with os's to do this, and will thsi mirroring thing improve my pc performance when playing games?

There was recently a thread on this according to tests done
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.p...highlight=raid
Personally I have Raid0 while knowing full well that it is not that useful for me at the moment, but hey I gotta have nice new technology if nothing else to know how to use the technology when it comes to working with it and for bragging rights. You really need to know what you need Raid for to need it if that makes any sense. For gaming the benefits are spurious to say the least.