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JenniferTrey   03-17-2009 at 06:35:24 PM

I bought the Asus P5B from a guy, not knowing exactly what I was getting.

I have purchased 2X1TB Raid disks and am trying to set it up. I want Raid 0 but it seems to be very difficult after reading some online.

Could you please help me understand what I need to do?

Is it possible to set up Raid 0 and if so how?

People are saying that it works with one eSata and 1 internal sata, but I have two internal. What do I need to do to get things to work.

Also, I am thinking of installing this on Win Server 2008, will the drivers for Jmicron work there?

Thanks in advance / Jennifer

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GhislainG   03-18-2009 at 03:25:15 AM
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You have to use one external and one internal disk. The Jmicron Vista drivers should work with Windows Server 2008. I definitely don't recommend setting up a RAID0 with one external disk, particularly on a server (unless it's a test server and you don't really care about it).

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JenniferTrey   03-18-2009 at 10:51:10 AM
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Hmm, no.. I care about this server.

The manual for my disks says that it can be placed in an external case, so I guess it has an esata port. Is it possible to keep both inside and with some cable connect them somehow?

Off the topic, what if I decided to run just one disk, but as a regular disk and non-raid(not sure if raid is possible with one disk), would that be as fast? (please correct me, I am a little misinformed) or if I joined the two disks as one and ran them non-raid, would that be as "good" as raid 0 ? I read raid0 would offer the speed of two disks, so I guess that won't be true..

Thanks allot / Jennifer

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howardp6   03-18-2009 at 12:01:33 PM
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You need a minimum of two disks to set up any sort of RAID and RAID 0 or 1 is the most you can do. Exactly what do you want to do. RAID 0 (i.e. Stripping) needs at least two drives and offers no redundancy. It does offer speed on both read and write access and size at the expense of redundancy if one of your drives goes your data is toast :( . RAID 1 (i.e. Mirroring) gives you redundancy so if one of the drives fails you still have your data and you get increased read access. The volume is degraded at that point. Joining two disks by the use of JBOD would not give you any speed increase is only gives you a larger size increase for differing disk sizes What OS are you using to use AHCA or Matrix you usually have load the drivers on OS setup for the JMicron or the SATA drives. There are ways to get around that. Are you using a separate RAID controller other than the Jmicron controller? Southbridge controller on your ASUS P5B does not support RAID


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GhislainG   03-18-2009 at 01:24:42 PM
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JenniferTrey wrote :

Hmm, no.. I care about this server.

The manual for my disks says that it can be placed in an external case, so I guess it has an esata port. Is it possible to keep both inside and with some cable connect them somehow?

Off the topic, what if I decided to run just one disk, but as a regular disk and non-raid(not sure if raid is possible with one disk), would that be as fast? (please correct me, I am a little misinformed) or if I joined the two disks as one and ran them non-raid, would that be as "good" as raid 0 ? I read raid0 would offer the speed of two disks, so I guess that won't be true..

Thanks allot / Jennifer


One disk might not be as fast, but it certainly is safer than RAID0 for a server. It all depends on what you'll do with that server. I don't use RAID on mine because I back it up on a regular basis and I run a bunch of VMs where having a disk dedicated to one or two VMs sometimes is better than using RAID.

You could also buy a motherboard that has an ICH9R or ICH10R and use RAID1 (or RAID10 with 4 disks if speed is important).

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JenniferTrey   03-18-2009 at 11:19:22 PM
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Well, the only reason for me to run raid 0 is the speed which you are supposed to be able to increase. I am launching a commercial website and I hope that tousands of users will visit so speed is important. But perhaps it is enough at the moment to have on disk (raid disk 3GB/s). However, the raid functionality won't be used but perhaps a raid disk is still faster than a non-raid one?

I think I will go for running them as normal disks and use one as a backup....

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GhislainG   03-19-2009 at 02:48:36 AM
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You need 2 or more disks in a RAID configuration. If you plan on having thousands of users visiting your site, then you should also consider other issues like link speed, etc. Only you knows if your site will be disk intensive. Normally you would use a hard disk for the OS and another dedicated disk for the web site. That would be a bit safer.

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