how to setup a raid array on p55 c200?

Question

I have never set up a raid array, I just know what they are and how they work... well sort of...

So I just built my new pc, and I have a crucial M4 64GB SSD with the OS on it. I also have 2 identical 2TB hard drives that will be used for data in a Raid 1 format. I just got all the driver cd's installed, and rebooted and stopped into the bios to figure out the raid. I set the ide configuration from IDE to RAID, and then rebooted, and the next time it booted, it stated to press ctrl-i for the RAID utility... so I did... I went to create RAID volume, and then created a Raid 1 volume called DATA with the 2 samsung drives. The Disk/Volume Information says there is a raid 1 named data with a status normal and it is labeled as bootable. The m4 is listed as a non-raid disk, while the 2 samsung disks are member disk (0).

So that looks great, and I go ahead and reboot, and I get the message that there is no bootable volume (no os installed). so I went to the bios thinking that the RAID volume had taken the place of the m4... I arranged the order ssd, DVD, usb. It still won't boot.... Do I need to set the m4 as it's own volume and then install everything all over again?

Answer 1

I know exactly what happened.



The boot loader had been on one of those hard drives. When you configured them as an array, that initial sector that tells Windows where to look for an operating system (your SSD) got destroyed.



First, in the BIOS configuration, tell your system to boot from the CD first, then the SSD.

Boot from your installation CD (hopefully you have one) and run Start-up repair. That will reinstall the boot loader on the first sector of your SSD, and link it to your OS on the SSD. From that point, you can operate normally.

Answer 2

it relies upon on what share drives you have and the point of overall performance you're in seek of for. With 4 drives you ought to stripe 3 of them and reflect a million......you will possibly have the overall performance of analyzing from 3 drives at as quickly as, and an entire bootable replica of each little thing on the mirroredcontinual. its spoke of as raid 2+a million. The downfall of striped raids is that if onecontinual fails you lose all the documents in that raid, because of the fact all drives acquire some 0.33 of the concepts. The overall performance advantages are huge in spite of the undeniable fact that. Thats why raid is used interior the server atmosphere, overall performance with the alternative for redundancy. the recent seagates are great, with the community command queuing, etc. they are impressive on par with the raptors from the benchmarks i've got run. besides, with a 2+a million raid you get the final of the two worlds.

Answer 3

just my experience, i had to reinstall everything after i set up the raid 1... only to find out that my intel board had a program that would allow me to switch over to raid 1 without reinstalling everything, douh!

Answer 4

you need to change the hard drive boot priority order, not device order