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| 1123957 | 2010-08-02 06:16:00 | Hi Team One of my RAID disks has fallen over (WD Caviar Black SATAII 640GB), the comp is still going on its twin, as indeed it should I guess, but I've updated my external backup just in case. The only warning was a couple of hangs that cleared when I left it alone for 5 minutes. I'll take it in for repair U/G tomorrow, but my question is, how safe is it to keep working tonight? Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1123958 | 2010-08-02 06:28:00 | Hi Team One of my RAID disks has fallen over (WD Caviar Black SATAII 640GB), the comp is still going on its twin, as indeed it should I guess, but I've updated my external backup just in case. The only warning was a couple of hangs that cleared when I left it alone for 5 minutes. I'll take it in for repair U/G tomorrow, but my question is, how safe is it to keep working tonight? Cheers Billy 8-{) a friend's laptop hd might of crashed in Singapore .... i took raid off my own one but i used a 2nd partition on the 1st hdd to sync files of my 2nd hdd and vice versa. i also have a external drive. it was getting pricey to have 2 hdd as a raid, then perhaps 1 and 2 more for the 2nd drive, then have a external as well. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1123959 | 2010-08-02 06:33:00 | It is a risk to keep using it Billy, but no more than if you were just running a single drive(which is what you will be doing). You have a current external b/up, so safe enough I would think. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1123960 | 2010-08-02 06:33:00 | a related question if i may. raid 1 has 2 hdd. if i have a system drive and a drive containing my files. is it okay to shove all my stuff into one setup - raid 5 i think it's called. would my speed suffer as a result. or is it possible to have 2 individual raid 1? or 2 individual raid 5. hope you get my flow.... Cheers .. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1123961 | 2010-08-02 06:37:00 | Raid 5 is normally implemented with 3 drives (which is the minimum). If it is 'Soft Raid' it will impact performance. If hardware Raid, not so much. en.wikipedia.org |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1123962 | 2010-08-02 06:41:00 | if a person has a sys drive and a drive of personal files (pix for photoshopping etc). is it okay to shove everything into that same raid 5? using 3 hdds as you say ... is it possible at all to have like 2 sets of raid 1 or 5's? or maybe use raid 5 with 4 drives if that provides a better balance ...... |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1123963 | 2010-08-02 07:03:00 | That sounds like my system, two disks in RAID-1 for OS & programs, two more for Data. Boy am I glad I did it this way. The whole set up was $1900 ex gst and is conservatively specced because there will be no gaming etc: 2.66 GHz Intel CPU, ASUS P7PssD MB, 4 GB Kingston DDR3-1600 RAM, Corsair 650W psu, Sapphire ATI Radeon HD5750 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E video card, and Lian Li mid tower case. There are a few other custom bits and pieces and tweaks, nothing to write home about but suited to my particular needs. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1123964 | 2010-08-02 07:51:00 | I've been running a RAID 0 setup on every build for the last 10 years and have never had a hard disk fail. I don't keep important files on my system so no biggie if one dies, and to date have only had RAID (with redundancy) pay off once, and have lost data because of my RAID 5 and RAID 0+1 array at least a couple of times. These days I keep at least one backup of all my data and in some cases 2, unfortunately I learned that lesson the hard way... |
Deimos (5715) | ||
| 1123965 | 2010-08-02 22:28:00 | I don't use RAID because of the temptation to use it for backup... My (age-related?) problem is accidentally overwriting media source files. With a backup I can recover |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1123966 | 2010-08-02 22:47:00 | the reason i quit raid now is that i don't need the speed and if i delete the file myself or hit by a virus it's kapuf. also it's more expensive. i just do backups with 2 internals and 1 external. i don't need time on all the time. if it crashes, i spend 30min to get it back on or a night - if i need to reorder a hdd. |
Nomad (952) | ||
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