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Intel Matrix Storage Manager
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 1:35 pm
by Gio
I've got 2x250 Gb hard drives that are Raid 5 drives, does installing Intel Matrix Storage Manager cause any problems after the setup of Raid 5, I've trawled the Intel site but they don't show any problems, in fact they say it makes setting up further drives easier as you have to reinstall the operating system again otherwise.
Cheers
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 8:20 pm
by Aladinsaneuk
not something io have ever used - sorry
(I got burned badly a long time ago by intel... so , no thanks!)
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 3:53 pm
by Gio
Aladinsaneuk wrote:not something io have ever used - sorry
(I got burned badly a long time ago by intel... so , no thanks!)
I once got a brown out on an Intel CPU. Overall tho I think they do try and do the right thing.
Anyway I've installed it, certain programmes now fly along (Weird that), however it makes no difference to the www.
Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 1:37 am
by Viking
Geek alert!
You can't do a RAID5 with only two drives, you need three or more.
Do you mean RAID-0 (two disks striped or concatenated together) or RAID-1 (two disks mirrored as copies of each other)?
Having two disks RAID-ed together generally makes your system faster, as you have data transfer from two drives (hopefully via two controllers). However, as you've found, it will have zero effect on anything that's not depending on disk access (eg: network traffic).
Oh, and with 500 Gigs of space available, I hope you have a good backup system available. Coz you never know when one of those disks is going to crap itself.
Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 8:21 am
by Aladinsaneuk
to be honest I hate raid
partly because i spent too long learning how to set them up - anyone else remember swearing at promise controllers?? and mainly because if i did help a friend out, and set up a raid system, then they would always fiddle - and expect me to go round and recover their data, as a priority... even had one chap who expected me to leave work to do that!
Raid can be great, but for the average home user - don't bother imho
Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 12:57 pm
by Gio
Viking wrote:Geek alert!
You can't do a RAID5 with only two drives, you need three or more.
Do you mean RAID-0 (two disks striped or concatenated together) or RAID-1 (two disks mirrored as copies of each other)?
Having two disks RAID-ed together generally makes your system faster, as you have data transfer from two drives (hopefully via two controllers). However, as you've found, it will have zero effect on anything that's not depending on disk access (eg: network traffic).
Oh, and with 500 Gigs of space available, I hope you have a good backup system available. Coz you never know when one of those disks is going to crap itself.
The disks are split into 4.
I've got an 80Gb backup disks but to be honest the most I need is about 20 as I only back up my business files and downloaded files.