Help with RAID

[looqas]

I've had the same trouble with a striping array kapoofing every now and then. Turned out to be one of the SATA cables Asus had supplied wasn't quite up to spec... replacing the data cables on both the disks in the array sorted the issue for me.

The Vista issue you reference isn't a Vista/7 issue, but a driver issue. Check for updated drivers at the mainboard vendor's driver website.
Bullcrap, especially if you intend to boot from a non-RAID drive. It's true that all data on the disks you plan to make an array out of will be destroyed, but Windows should pick up the new hardware just fine. Adding hardware RAID to a system involves putting a controller for such in one - most mainboards these days have such a controller onboard. Just make sure you tell it to boot from the non-SATA drive first instead of trying to boot from RAID.

Software RAID isn't something I would advise using.

I have hard time believing it's a driver issue since I got the latest (it was the first thing I actually did. Updated the SATA drivers) and people have had the same disappearing HDD problem with diverse mobos. The only common thing I managed to gather was Vista / 7 and my own personal experience that an older SATA I worked just fine for months since I have had this mobo/setup. I thought I had a faulty Western Digital HDD, but yesterday I changed that 1TB WD -> 1TB Samsung and I after I was happy that the new Samsung was "working" I was thrilled. But as soon as I started copying my 300GB of photos from my C to E (the brand new Samsung) the same problem came as with the previous "broken" HDD (teh WD HDD was like 2 weeks old). First the transfer rate drops abysmally and then it just informs rather cheerily that the target drive does not exist anymore. And true that since Win 7 does not show it anymore (not is disk manager or device manager or anywhere). BIOS shows it being present though. But like I said. I have try grouping the HDDs tonight if I have time.


Thanks for the info about the RAID. I'm not going to go through Win 7 re-install though, so I need more info about the SW RAID. If I understood you correctly. Might have read your reply wrong too. The impression I got browsing the web is that you just have to do a reinstall if you want to roll with the hardware controller RAID. But maybe it's people who want to RAID their OS disks.

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