I'm new to RAID 1. My client wants RAID 1 for Drive C: (Win XP Pro) made up of 2 identical 250 Gig Seagate HDDs. My first attempt was on an ASUS Modo using VIA RAID 1. Every few days the system would drop to a crawl and take nearly 15 mins to boot and about 5 minutes to open MS Excel. It would improve dramatically if I synchronized the drives. And so it would carry on, slow, fast, slow, fast. Remember I've never set up or used RAID before.
No knowing what the problem was or how to solve it, I changed the Mobo for an NForce. After backing up the data I elected to delete all data and reset the MBR. The installation is now complete, backups are reinstalled and all appears to be o.k.
Can anyone tell me if a). the above problem will re-occour with the NForce Mobo, b). what should I have done to prevent the slowing down, c). is there anything I still need to do.
Thanks,
Tom.
No knowing what the problem was or how to solve it, I changed the Mobo for an NForce. After backing up the data I elected to delete all data and reset the MBR. The installation is now complete, backups are reinstalled and all appears to be o.k.
Can anyone tell me if a). the above problem will re-occour with the NForce Mobo, b). what should I have done to prevent the slowing down, c). is there anything I still need to do.
Thanks,
Tom.