Raid Controllers

[GregoryDMELLOTT]

"Most RAID controllers today notify the user of a crash with a beep and by e-mail (of course, this does not apply to the RAID levels with the system partition, which do not offer any crash protection)."

This is a quote from one of this sites articles comparing a bunch of differnt types of Raid cards.

Maybe someone could tell me more clearly what is going on here. If anything one would like to have stabilty for their system. So why are drives holding the system not effective protected by the RAIDs redundancy.

Sincerely,

Gregory D MELLOTT

 

[Guest]

It depends on the raid level!

Raid 0 offers no redundancy and thus no protection!
Use raid 1, 0+1 or Raid 5 for security!

<b><font color=red>Captain Obvious To The Rescue!!!</font color=red></b>

 

[GregoryDMELLOTT]

We tried using the onboard RAID in a SOYO Dragon motherboard, the operating system was Win98SE. The RAID only found troubles on startup and always wanted to rebuild the RAID. The drives were new and never gave any trouble outside of the RAID. We eventually ran out of drives to pair. So we ended up not using a RAID. It was more trouble and never found an error to correct the time it did run anyway.