tsamb. Posted November 3, 2009 Posted November 3, 2009 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? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted November 3, 2009 Posted November 3, 2009 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). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsamb. Posted November 4, 2009 Posted November 4, 2009 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shibby_geek_guy_69 Posted November 4, 2009 Posted November 4, 2009 Get a decent RAID controller (read: Hardware) and It'll re-initialize in the background Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted November 4, 2009 Posted November 4, 2009 Why would you get rid of the RAID0? Because it's useless with regular hard drives? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fireonice Posted November 10, 2009 Posted November 10, 2009 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xPETEZx Posted November 10, 2009 Posted November 10, 2009 RAID 0 dosent have a parity disk, and as such does not suffer from having to re-initiliase after a hard reset. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comp Dude2 Posted November 10, 2009 Posted November 10, 2009 wow....if i lost a day every time i did a hard shut down, i'd think long and hard before pressing that button. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted November 10, 2009 Posted November 10, 2009 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). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
feetfats Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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