Old MSI NEO fis2r with promise raid.

They have to match in order for me to stripe them? Having
250+250+250+120 and making a 870gb disk out of them?

I could use software to join them as dynamic disks under windows but I
wanted to do that with the existing promise raid on the MSI board.

I know that if I made a raid5 out of them the 250 disks would only
really work as 120's
But a stripe?


-M

On Oct 5, 9:36 am, Glasspider <Glasspi....TakeThisOut@spamblock.com> wrote:
> All your drives have to match, preferably all the same exact model. The
> speeds of modern drives have made RAID setups much less useful than they
> used to be. They're rarely worth the trouble and the extra hard drive
> space is always useful.
>
> Menthol wrote:
> > I have been trying to figure this out.....
>
> > I want to have a raid0 i.e. striping across 4 sata disks 3x250gb and
> > 1x120gb.
>
> > I also want my IDE CD-ROM to work.
>
> > I can't seem to find the right combo in the Bios on how to set it up
> > and when I get the raid setup screen it only shows 2 drives not 4.
>
> > Anyone?
>
> > Thanks,
> > M
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Your problem may be a mix of drive speeds.

However, unless you've got a 300G file you need to store, you'd be
better off with multiple drives with multiple drive letters. A stripe of
four drives means a 4x greater chance of complete failure. As individual
drives you have a normal chance of only a partial failure.

'pider


Menthol wrote:
> They have to match in order for me to stripe them? Having
> 250+250+250+120 and making a 870gb disk out of them?
>
> I could use software to join them as dynamic disks under windows but I
> wanted to do that with the existing promise raid on the MSI board.
>
> I know that if I made a raid5 out of them the 250 disks would only
> really work as 120's
> But a stripe?
>
>
> -M
>
> On Oct 5, 9:36 am, Glasspider <Glasspi....TakeThisOut@spamblock.com> wrote:
>> All your drives have to match, preferably all the same exact model. The
>> speeds of modern drives have made RAID setups much less useful than they
>> used to be. They're rarely worth the trouble and the extra hard drive
>> space is always useful.
>>
>> Menthol wrote:
>>> I have been trying to figure this out.....
>>> I want to have a raid0 i.e. striping across 4 sata disks 3x250gb and
>>> 1x120gb.
>>> I also want my IDE CD-ROM to work.
>>> I can't seem to find the right combo in the Bios on how to set it up
>>> and when I get the raid setup screen it only shows 2 drives not 4.
>>> Anyone?
>>> Thanks,
>>> M
>
>
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