MACK Posted January 30, 2006 Posted January 30, 2006 Hello, recently morphed a raid 0 (2 IDE) to raid 5 (3 ide)... and not sure if all ok? Quick and Dirty... Looking for a utility to make sure my raid array is really set up for raid 5... and not just raid 0. Story... I have been running DFI Lanparty UT Ultra-D using RAID 0 successfuly for a while now. I had 2 WD 160GB IDE drives with decent performance. But, after a few scares with overclocking, I decided to add another disk so I could get some data protection. I attached a Maxtor 160GB HD and in BIOS, I set it to enable for RAID. I then looked at the raid setup using f10 just after bios... but did not see anything useful that would allow me to KEEP my existing data. So, instead, I opted for NVRAIDMAN.EXE that I found in Windows/system32 dir. It showed the WD drives in a raid Striping config. and the Maxtor below them as a "FREE DISK" UNDER "SYSTEM TOOLS" it had the option of CREATE ARRAY... so I figured what the heck... and chose create array. NVRAIDMAN then allowed me to choose RAID 5. (RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives) And since I only had 3 drives ... this is perfect. Ok... so wammo... I said yes... it does its thing... and then next thing I see: NAME STATUS STRIPING WD1 healthy WD2 healthy Maxtor healthy So, I assume all is OK... BUT... Why does NVRAIDMAN show the 3 disk array as striping? and not raid5 or something? And I also noted that there was no "copying" of old data to the new added drive... It was just up and running immediately... So, is there a Utility to really understand how my NVIDIA RAID array has been setup? (I just want to confirm the status of raid 5 rather than simply striping.) Thanks. MACK Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGone Posted January 30, 2006 Posted January 30, 2006 Go to Nvidia and get this> http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_28159.html RGone... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACK Posted January 30, 2006 Posted January 30, 2006 Thanks for the updated Nvidia RAID Manual... I did the quick read... and for RAID-5, the manual does show RAID-5 as the type of RAID... But in my system it is shown as striping. Even tho I chose raid 5. I don't suppose there is a way to convert this from a 3 disk striping array to a 3 disk raid-5 array? (Arg...) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowboy Posted January 30, 2006 Posted January 30, 2006 Do you realize how slow your hdds are going to be in raid5 15mbsec I just couldn't live with that kind performance. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACK Posted January 30, 2006 Posted January 30, 2006 I had no idea... thanks for the info... Guess I will live with 3 drives in striping for now.. until I can figure out how to get a 4th drive... and convert it to a 2 striped 2 mirrored! Arg. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACK Posted January 30, 2006 Posted January 30, 2006 Quick question: why does my newly added drive only show up in NVRAIDMAN, and not when i examine it in the boot (press f10)? Thanks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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