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LAN Party Forums => Support Group => Started by: Broken on November 26, 2010, 06:41:30 PM
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I am getting ready to swap everything over from my current OS drives to a new SSD. I wanted to check with you guys to see which program you would recommend for doing this with the windows 7 OS. I have never done it before and wanted to get some feedback on a good utility to use.
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Acronis is awesome, still haven found anything if you are using RAID. I would take this opportunity to do a fresh install.
Grab the trial version:
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/index.html (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/index.html)
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I am currently running a raid 0
o.O
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The restore disk boots a mini OS just for loading the image, the problem is that the mini OS rarely has the drivers for RAID controllers.
I dunno if it has the option to clone your root/OS drive while booted from it.
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When I need to clone a disk I usually run an Ubuntu Live CD and download a linux program to do the cloning. That should solve the RAID problem as well.
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...and download a linux program to do the cloning.
+5 informative
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...and download a linux program to do the cloning.
+5 informative
QQFT LOL
Clonezilla perhaps? I can't remember if GParted does any cloning of drives or if it just does partitioning. But as Zx2Slow already mentioned, Acronis TrueImage works well and does in fact support your RAID setup. http://kb.acronis.com/content/11681 (http://kb.acronis.com/content/11681)
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Just ran into a project where Acronis didn't have the drivers to 'see' the raid*. But it can't hurt to boot to the disk and see
*From Acronis Bootable Media most of the RAID controllers are supported.
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was it a panty raid or a raid 0?
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raid 5 on a Win server 08 with a version of Arconis Pro. But I have had other good experiences with it.
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The link sully posted indicated that a hardware RAID controller was supported, this is dealing with onboard SW RAID. It depends on the RAID chip set, everything will work with true hardware RAID as the controller will mask anything on the disk back end and present a virtual "drive" to the host.
I haven't found anything that will support the ICH10R controller yet, every writeup I see on any Linux distro the neckbeards refer to software RAID as "fake raid'.
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No one said anything about software vs. hardware RAID. Judging from what I know of BrokenShadow and his hardware lust, he is running a hardware RAID, amirite?
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ran outa space... yes, in a Cosmos S, I ran out of space o.O
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ran outa space... yes, in a Cosmos S, I ran out of space o.O
You don't need to save the pr0n... Just stream it.
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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.
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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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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.
(http://abudira.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/ill_semantics_tom.jpg?w=290&h=290)
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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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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Indeed. Remember ZX is the good twin. I am what happens when your mom does the devil.
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(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/09/twins.jpg)
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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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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.