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I'm having some trouble understanding some of the new technology and setting up raid for the first time in awhile. I have a 500gb samsung 850 evo sata 3 3D SSD and wanted to use it as a boot and application drive and (2) WD 1TB hard drives I'd like in raid 1. The motherboard I got (GA-Z270X K7) has the ability to use the intel RST Premium with the Intel optane system.

As of now I set the system to install windows 10 in AHCI mode like I have in the past. Once I went to set up the raid it wanted to default back to the Intel optane system, which didn't allow me to start my windows unless I switched it to AHCI.

I've been trying to research this but can't seem to find the answers I'm looking for. So my questions are:
Is the SSD I purchased designed for the new Intel optane technology?
Should I start over and not install in AHCI, and use the Optane technolgy?
Does the Optane technology only work in raid and do I need to have my SSD running in a raid and have my WD drives in another raid set?
What is the best solution to take advantage of speed and reliability in my situation?

Thanks for any help!
 
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Right.
You need to safeguard the data, vs the physical drive.

Which entails an actual backup.

I use Macrium Reflect. Create an image of the entire drive (or whatever config you set), on a schedule, off to a different drive.
It also has the capability for Incremental or Differential images. A new Incremental or Differential every day gives you the option to go back in time, and recreate the system as it was (for instance) last Tuesday.
A RAID 1 only gives availability for a dead drive. If anything weird...
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"Optane"
Put that word out of your mind.

It really has no place in a consumer grade system.

Optane is not merely a couple of switches in the BIOS, but also additional hardware. Basically, high speed memory chips that act as a cache for your drives.
Much like the early renditions of SSD's. A small cache space for HDD's.
 
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Thanks for the input. So what do I need to do to maintain my SSD in ahci and raid my 2 HDDs? When I try and do the easy raid in the bios it reverts back to "Intel RST premium with optane system acceleration" in the sata mode selection.

Can I raid my HDDs in windows since I'm not putting an OS on them?
 
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This is a for a workstation computer that I'm replacing my current one with. The reason for the raid 1 is for the safeguard if one drive would fail then I have a backup and I can replace the drive and have it copied again.

The other thing I could do is buy another SSD and raid the 2 ssd drives with raid 0 and raid the HDDs in raid 1. I'm not sure if this is a better option.

I've thought about a small server station but I deeply lack the knowledge of server and networking stuff along with the security of it. And there are so many opinions and options when it comes to servers, computer built servers, nas and so on.
 
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RAID 0 with SSD's is very much a non-optimal config. Brings no performance benefit, and many drawbacks.


For the possible RAID 1 you're considering....how much 'downtime' can you handle? If less than 30 minutes, then RAID 1.
If you can take slightly more than 30 minutes...there are better ways to do this.

A RAID 1 only helps in the case of a physical drive fail Which is actually pretty rare. It does nothing for all the other pathways to data failure and loss.
 
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I do believe it is rare to have a drive fail, but I can't afford to have one do it with all my data on it so I'm trying to take more precautions.

What would your recommendation be for my situation?
 
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Right.
You need to safeguard the data, vs the physical drive.

Which entails an actual backup.

I use Macrium Reflect. Create an image of the entire drive (or whatever config you set), on a schedule, off to a different drive.
It also has the capability for Incremental or Differential images. A new Incremental or Differential every day gives you the option to go back in time, and recreate the system as it was (for instance) last Tuesday.
A RAID 1 only gives availability for a dead drive. If anything weird happens....ransomware, accidental deletion, other malware...the RAID 1 does nothing for that.

Read here for my personal backup scenario:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3383768/backup-situation-home.html
 
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Awesome! This is more of what I'd like to do. I need something with better backup options and security that I can manage myself and not have to have an IT specialist ordered to come in and do server maintenance. I'll read through this and let you know if I have some other questions. Thanks for pointing me to some related topics.
 
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My procedure linked above is rather intense, but could be easily recreated on a smaller scale with a single external HDD.
 
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