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Re: Drive cloning software
« Reply #15 on: November 30, 2010, 09:17:31 PM »
i never bothered putting a raid controller in. Very little space between my bottom vid card the open pcie slots and the power supply.
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Re: Drive cloning software
« Reply #16 on: December 01, 2010, 12:40:59 PM »
Quote from: Zx2Slow on November 30, 2010, 02:53:24 PM
If you are using the onboard RAID controller then it is not true hardware RAID, anything you need drivers to use isn't true hardware RAID.




I see the Raid half full, if the OS isn't doing it then it ain't a true software RAID.

WHAT WHAT?
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Re: Drive cloning software
« Reply #17 on: December 01, 2010, 01:24:00 PM »
Sorry, I will try to be more clear.

True hardware RAID will calculate RAID parity on board the controller.  SW RAID requires that the host's CPU does the RAID parity/striping calculation, either completely (ZFS, MDADM, Windows disk Spanning) or by emulating the operation of a true hardware RAID controller (Intel ICH#R, nForce on board RAID controller, Silicon Image SIL chip sets, etc).

I hate the neckbeard term 'Fake RAID" as the results are still quite real, you just need drivers/software to complete the solution.  Many OS's and miniroot environments have some drivers built in but not all and finding one with ICH10R Raid controller drivers built in is what Broken and myself need to backup and restore to a RAID boot drive.
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Re: Drive cloning software
« Reply #18 on: December 01, 2010, 05:56:18 PM »
Indeed. Remember ZX is the good twin. I am what happens when your mom does the devil.
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Re: Drive cloning software
« Reply #19 on: December 02, 2010, 07:18:03 PM »

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Re: Drive cloning software
« Reply #20 on: December 03, 2010, 09:02:16 PM »
any recommendations on a raid controller?

Internal SATA connectors (at least 2 or 4)
PCIExpress

Something that is not a full width card in the slot due to liquid cooling connections.
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Re: Drive cloning software
« Reply #21 on: December 05, 2010, 03:31:07 PM »
Ended up just swapping out my raptors from the raid zero and setting up a new one using the onboard and software.

I backed up my OS with Acronis, did a fresh install if W7U and then used acronis to restore the drive. Everything seems to be gtg so far.

Thanks for the suggestion of Acronis ZX, and thanks to everyone else for their feedback. It all helped with the process.
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What kind of Fudgeing computer errors are you getting?
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