RAID5 I Need Help Please!

#!/mason/brain · 28-January-08, 05:03 PM

NVIDIA Forums -> Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe some minor issues

This guy has the same exact problem.

How do I get windows to see the 3 disks as one disk?

My setup is exactly the same as his (i have a raid0 booting XP x64 and trying to get raid5 storage)

killert · 28-January-08, 05:36 PM

Change them all to dynamic disks and add portion, add all three drives? I not sure if it will work

#!/mason/brain · 28-January-08, 06:06 PM

Yeah I've got it going. Using windows "Computer Management > Disk Management". I just thought that my motherboard would do a hardware RAID but i guess I was wrong it just accelerates when windows has the drivers installed oh well at least it gives me what I want and that is redundancy!

THRiLL KiLL · 28-January-08, 06:24 PM

software raid 5. ick.

when booting, you will see an option for both of the raid controlers you will want to go into the options for the 1st one

also on the motherboard there is a cluster of 6 sata ports. make sure the drives are pluged into there and not the orange one and esata port

once inside the raid menu, u can set up the raid, please note you will loose any info on the hard drives.

For a raid 5 setup you will need 3 disks, the raid will be the size of the smallest disk.

so if you have a 80gb, 250gb and a 500gb, windows will only be able to use 160gb.

this works, i had a raid 5 setup before... now i have backup software and dont see the need.

28-January-08, 05:03 PM		#1 (permalink)
#!/mason/brain Apex Master Tech Apprentice	RAID5 I Need Help Please! NVIDIA Forums -> Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe some minor issues This guy has the same exact problem. How do I get windows to see the 3 disks as one disk? My setup is exactly the same as his (i have a raid0 booting XP x64 and trying to get raid5 storage)

28-January-08, 05:36 PM		#2 (permalink)
killert Apex Tech God	Re: RAID5 I Need Help Please! Change them all to dynamic disks and add portion, add all three drives? I not sure if it will work

28-January-08, 06:06 PM		#3 (permalink)
#!/mason/brain Apex Master Tech Apprentice	Re: RAID5 I Need Help Please! Yeah I've got it going. Using windows "Computer Management > Disk Management". I just thought that my motherboard would do a hardware RAID but i guess I was wrong it just accelerates when windows has the drivers installed oh well at least it gives me what I want and that is redundancy!

28-January-08, 06:24 PM		#4 (permalink)
THRiLL KiLL PcApEX's PuNK ROckER	Re: RAID5 I Need Help Please! software raid 5. ick. when booting, you will see an option for both of the raid controlers you will want to go into the options for the 1st one also on the motherboard there is a cluster of 6 sata ports. make sure the drives are pluged into there and not the orange one and esata port once inside the raid menu, u can set up the raid, please note you will loose any info on the hard drives. For a raid 5 setup you will need 3 disks, the raid will be the size of the smallest disk. so if you have a 80gb, 250gb and a 500gb, windows will only be able to use 160gb. this works, i had a raid 5 setup before... now i have backup software and dont see the need.

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