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Should I move my games off my RAID5? |
 Nov 3 2009, 11:49 AM
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Hi all,
I had my first dirty shutdown that required reinitialization of my 4 x 1TB RAID5 array last night. I've left it initializing all night and it's only at 23%. Urgh. I was playing The Witcher and I had a hard freeze and had to hard reset. I have my OS on a RAID0 array, and most media on my RAID5, including all of my games, currently. Question is: Should I move all of my games to the OS drive to prevent this happening again if there's another hard freeze? I could play games from the OS drive and back them up to the RAID5. What do you think? -------------------- i7 860 // Asus P7P55D // Asus Radeon HD4890 // 4GB DDR3-1600 // 640GB RAID 0 + 3TB RAID 5 // Antec P180 Black // Enermax Infiniti PSU
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Nov 3 2009, 12:34 PM
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 Audio Nut  Posts: 6,706 Joined: 14-February 04 From: Clemson U. Member No.: 8,484 |
Personally I'd get rid of the RAID 0 to start. Installs I definitely wouldn't put on the RAID 5 either (both because of the problem you've noted and because you aren't running a real hardware RAID card so your CPU gets hogged whenever you're doing disk access).
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Nov 3 2009, 05:50 PM
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Member Posts: 253 Joined: 28-March 04 From: New Zealand Member No.: 9,285 |
I'm not worried about my OS on RAID0. I back up regularly and I'm not worried about losing data on that array. Why would you get rid of the RAID0?
I am also not worried about CPU usage on the ICH10R. I have found performance fine, even under demanding combined CPU/HDD usage. Nothing to demand spending a couple of hundred bucks on a dedicated RAID controller. All I am worried about are more hard crashes which will result in a 2-day reinitialization. I did the same on my last build (games on RAID5) and I went two years without having to reinitialize. -------------------- i7 860 // Asus P7P55D // Asus Radeon HD4890 // 4GB DDR3-1600 // 640GB RAID 0 + 3TB RAID 5 // Antec P180 Black // Enermax Infiniti PSU
E6750 + Ultra-120 eXtreme // Asus P5K-E // MSI Geforce 8800GTS 320 // 4GB PC6400 RAM 5-5-5-15 // 320GB HDD + 1TB RAID 5 // Silverstone Temjin 3 // Enermax Liberty PSU |
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Nov 3 2009, 05:53 PM
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 Member Posts: 103 Joined: 29-June 04 From: Nowra, NSW, AUS Member No.: 10,912 |
Get a decent RAID controller (read: Hardware) and It'll re-initialize in the background
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Nov 3 2009, 06:30 PM
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Audio Nut Posts: 6,706 Joined: 14-February 04 From: Clemson U. Member No.: 8,484 |
QUOTE (tsamb. @ Nov 3 2009, 08:50 PM)  Why would you get rid of the RAID0? Because it's useless with regular hard drives? 
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Nov 10 2009, 03:44 AM
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 ya bro Posts: 2,393 Joined: 3-August 04 From: vero beach, fl Member No.: 11,469 |
How come have never had a single problem with my raid 0 array??!? And i have had tons of hard shut downs, blue screens, you name it.
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Nov 10 2009, 05:05 AM
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 .:!!MEAT!!:. Posts: 1,605 Joined: 15-December 04 From: West London, UK Member No.: 14,164 |
RAID 0 dosent have a parity disk, and as such does not suffer from having to re-initiliase after a hard reset.
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Nov 10 2009, 05:32 AM
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 Certified Geek Posts: 1,934 Joined: 17-August 06 Member No.: 18,501 |
wow....if i lost a day every time i did a hard shut down, i'd think long and hard before pressing that button.
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Nov 10 2009, 07:26 AM
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Audio Nut Posts: 6,706 Joined: 14-February 04 From: Clemson U. Member No.: 8,484 |
QUOTE (Comp Dude2 @ Nov 10 2009, 08:32 AM) wow....if i lost a day every time i did a hard shut down, i'd think long and hard before pressing that button. You should do that anyway...that's one of the worst things you can do on a computer with a disk cache (especially with caching enabled in Windows). -------------------- Desktop: | Q6600 @ 3.2 GHz | 128 GB GSkill Falcon | 8 GB WinTec AmpX | Sapphire 4870 X2 | DFI P35-T2RL | PCP&C Silencer 610 | W7 x64 | HTPC: | X3 720 BE @ 3.4 GHz | 4.5 TB Storage | 8 GB GeIL Black Dragon | PowerColor 4830 | ECS A-780GM-A | ATI Theater 650 Pro | OCZ Fatal1ty 550 | W7 x64 | Router/VPN/Compiling: | Opteron 175 | 4 GB DDR 500 | S3 Trio PCI VGA | Asus A8N-SLI SE | SinTek 500SLI | XP Pro | Office: | Dell Precision 390 | Core 2 Duo E6320 | 2 GB DDR2 667 | XFX 7800GT | Fedora 10 / Windows 7 RC | NetBook: | Asus EeePC 900A | 1.6 GHz Atom | 32 GB SSD | 2 GB DDR2 667 | Intel Integrated | W7 x86 | |
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Nov 12 2009, 08:15 PM
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QUOTE (Waco @ Nov 10 2009, 07:26 AM) You should do that anyway...that's one of the worst things you can do on a computer with a disk cache (especially with caching enabled in Windows). I'm pretty newb so I need you to enlighten me. I've had to do this many times in my life because the computer locks up and I dont know anything else to do...besides alt-ctrl-del I've always known this is bad but I dont know what else to do ps... sorry to hijack the thread -------------------- QUOTE (Kash) So what you're saying is that you read the title, ignored the OP's post, made a quick and reckless post, which by itself shows that you failed to do something as basic as reading the first post in the thread, and then got caught. Well done :thumbs-up: ____________________________ Case: Antec 300 CPU: Phenom II 940 MB: GIG MA790X GPU: (X2) XFX 4870 1gb Screen: (X2) Acer 23" 1920x1080 Ram: 2x2 Corsair Dom1066 PS: Corsair TX 750W Win 7 64bit HDD: 640GB WD 2x1TB For Media + Backup |
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