Another Hard Drive Question

by **BallBuster** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:28 pm

You dont need a nic card with your motherboard.
The gigabit lan is all you need

Go into your bios and make sure it is enabled

That is your broadband connection port

by **BallBuster** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:35 pm

"Techno Geek Fight"... LOL

I am just stating a fact. He can look it up on the ASUS
web site. I had their previous card P4G800 Delux and that
card could not run in this type of RAID

That is why I dumped a perfectly good new mother board on ebay

by **Ralph Wiggum** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:45 pm

Thanks Ballbuster, I will check again and see if the cable really fits.

I am far from an expert, but the reason I asked was because you were talking about backing up one hard drve on the other. I took this to mean not a Raid 0, but a Raid 1 backup. I thought the two pairs of SATA connections were for either the Promise Raid controller or the Intel one. I know you can do a Raid 1+0 involving 4 hard drives, but I didn't think I could do anything wirh with either of the two Raid 0 hard drives except let them be part of the array.

by **Ralph Wiggum** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:47 pm

Also, Ballbuster, since you are using the same motherboard as me, let me ask you what Bios you are using. I didn't update it yet, and it seems to be working, so I don't know if I need to move to something newer.

by **BallBuster** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:48 pm

This "Raid" set-up I talked about is new and exclusive to
the ASAU mobos' as far as I know

This is the 3rd ASUS rig I built in a year... ASUS Rocks!

by **BallBuster** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:50 pm

NEVER UPDATE BIOS.........

The only reason you would update your bios is if you
have some type of conflict or problem that may be addressed
with a newer version of bios

New bios will NOT make your computer run faster or better
all it will do is cause potential problems

If there is not a problem DONT update the bios:D

by **BallBuster** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:53 pm

Ralph

To set-up the drives like I was talking about you would
NOT set-up any bios configs in bios

Plug in only 1 drive - make sure it is in SATA 1

Do a complete format and install everything
Get a copy of Norton Ghost - install it on drive 1

Shut Down - pull the plug from the back

Plug in the second drive into SATA 2

REMEMBER - Do NOT feed any SATA drive with both types
of power cables - you will FRY the drive

by **MoDyna** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 7:15 pm

Hey guy's, I'm setting up a Raid 0 setup on my computer as well using two WD 74GB Raptor drives. My question is, for a gaming machine, what bit size should I use? I think I read somewhere that the smaller the better, but how small should I go?

by **Bullhead** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 7:36 pm

**deleted by me, I'm an a-hole sometimes :tard:

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by **Bullhead** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 7:39 pm

Mo, you've just asked the most hotly debated topic on every forum I've ever been to. There is no definitive answer that I've been able to glean, especially since it varies depending on use. Essentially, smaller cluster/stripe sizes are better for systems that house small files. The larger clusters/stripes are better for housing large files (like 700mb movies, etc). For a standard PC, *most* people will tell you 16kb for the cluster and stripe is best. I'm currently running on a 32kb cluster/stripe, and I get very good performance out of it. I'll probably try 16kb next time around to see what change it has.....

by **LeVar Burton** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 7:53 pm

The punches keep flying!!!

Who will perform the geek fatality?

by **BallBuster** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 8:00 pm

BullHead

My bad from the start bro.....

I confused what I tried to do with my old ASUS card
and what I could with the new ASUS card

The old card would NOT allow 2 individual SATA drives to run without some type of RAID array. The NEW card does allow
2 SATA drives to be configured as individual drives

I went through hours of tech support with ASUS trying to
mess with settings trying to get the old P4G8X Delux to
run those 2 drives individually with no luck

With the new card the incorporated that ability

As far as my statements about bios are true, read my entire
post. What I wanted to convey is that there is no reason to update
bios just for the sake of updating it.

by **Murgatroyd** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 8:07 pm

Originally posted by LeVar Burton
The punches keep flying!!!

Who will perform the geek fatality?

I can see it now.. processors ripped out of MOBOs.. acid sprayed onto chipsets...

by **Bullhead** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 8:09 pm

First, I also apologize, I took the whole thing a bit too personal (long day, took it out on you).

I know what you mean, some boards will let you run non-raid thru a raid controller, some won't. I've had to fight around it myself in the past.

I do agree you don't need to update BIOS for the sake of updating (although I tend to

), I just didn't like the NEVER part.

Again, I'm sorry, I just get hacked when people start arguing with me over stuff they don't know (or in our case, we are miscommunicating). :beer:

by **Ldsmith104** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 9:09 pm

Okay at the chance of starting some more :flame:

Why have you all left out raid 5, yes it takes 3 or more drives, but windows supports it (software) or you can get hareware supported also. The advantge is if a single drive fails you can replace that drive with a new one and it will rebuild the missing data from the other 2. Read speed is 3 times faster if you have 3 drives 4 times for 4 drives, however write time is SLOWER 3 for 3 or 4 for 4. Great for protecting data or used in a file server.

Anyway my 2 cents

:flame:

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