ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread - Page 94 - Overclock.net

The Pook · 03-30-07

So wait.
Is RAID 0 **** on this board?
I'm wanting to go the RAID 0 route soon.
(When my Vista copy sells since I don't want it. Check out the for sale thread. *cough*)

If it's **** I don't want to do it.

dpawl31 · 03-31-07

I doubt they are saying it's bad.
Keep in mind - Ravin is running, I believe two raid setups, and some non raid drives. I think he has an entire CM Stacker filled with hard drives. (HAHA JK)

Not too many people running raid with this board yet, I am sure it's just being tricky. RAID iteself is tricky, I have yet to try it because it kind of scares me

Striping, ghosting, boogity woogity-ing, perpendicularing, crazy raiding?!

Ravin · 03-31-07

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Originally Posted by USlatin

Ravin, you keep giving me the link to that thread when I had allready posted on it before you gave it to me the first time. LOL
Trust me I read the whole thing, twice... lol

Anyway, thanks for the explanation in cleared terms... I won't be ghosting unless I can install XP OVER media center to get rid of it... I don't think that can be done, so I might have to just start from scratch. Right?

You'll definitely have to start from scratch, using one SATA drive according to ASUS. After installing the OS <MAKE SURE TO INSTALL THE RAID DRIVERS USING F6 DURING INSTALL> and then the other drivers in this order: Chipset, Audio, USB (if using earlier than XP), then video (followed by norton ghost). Once that is done, you will need 2 additional SATA drives to create the RAID array. Finally, once the RAID is created, you will need to ghost the installation of your OS to the RAID array. This should be it. I'm still working on getting Norton ghost activated....the freakin product key they gave me is invalid

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Originally Posted by The Pook

So wait.
Is RAID 0 **** on this board?
I'm wanting to go the RAID 0 route soon.
(When my Vista copy sells since I don't want it. Check out the for sale thread. *cough*)

If it's **** I don't want to do it.

Yup RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, and 10 are supported onboard (SATA only)

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Originally Posted by dpawl31

I doubt they are saying it's bad.
Keep in mind - Ravin is running, I believe two raid setups, and some non raid drives. I think he has an entire CM Stacker filled with hard drives. (HAHA JK)

Not too many people running raid with this board yet, I am sure it's just being tricky. RAID iteself is tricky, I have yet to try it because it kind of scares me

Striping, ghosting, boogity woogity-ing, perpendicularing, crazy raiding?!

I was running 3 RAID 0 arrays- one on SATA, 2 on a PCI IDE controller. My PCI card doesn't work on this board for some reason so I scapped the 2 IDE RAID arrays and moved the 2 larger drives to the onboard IDE port (now non-raid) for backup and file service.

I've been running RAID 0 forever- at least 12 years and NEVER had ANY problems until now. Although all of my previous controllers were HighPoint 374. I guess that nVidia just hasn't quite got the bugs out yet. I've actually never thought that setting up RAID was any harder than plugging in an extra HDD and drivers.

dpawl31 · 03-31-07

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Yup RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, and 10 are supported onboard (SATA only)

Hah, I think his ***** meant a dirty word. Not is it supported. LoL

Ravin · 03-31-07

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Originally Posted by dpawl31

Hah, I think his ***** meant a dirty word. Not is it supported. LoL

I think he was asking and cursing at the same time

dpawl31 · 03-31-07

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RAVIN- Location: Beaverton OR

USlatin · 03-31-07

Yea, RAID isn't hard... it isn't supposed to be anyway, the only reason why it can be is because manufacturers don't always employ people with good writing skills and the manuals and/or BIOS are all in jeberish...

Wait, so I have to start the computer with a single drive first? Why cant we get into the RAID BIOS and create a RAID0 from the get-go... anyways, this shouldn't be a problem, just an extra (long) step...

I'll have to copy all the stuff from my 4th and 5th drives onto my C: and then use one of them to start the computer, then set up my 2nd and 3rd in a RAID0 in the ASUS RAID BIOS, then use an XP boot disk to boot from them, right? Then install the important system drivers in the order they spelled out for us, and THEN ghost over.... right?
I actually won't ghost over cause if I did I would ghost Media Center over, so I will just continue installing all the software one at a time... agghhh!!!

Then again, that's the cost of doing business, right?
There is a very nice sound card from M-Audio with Sinche inputs that records @ 96khz, but M-Audio is one of the many who don't support Media Center...

So did I get it right Ravin?

DonNiger · 03-31-07

You do not have to start your PC with a single drive. Just connect everything you need, start the "engine", enter bios and enable raid. And choose the drives you would like to have in your RAID. Save bios, restart and go to the raid utility pressing F10 during post check. Choose stripping, mirroing etc.
insert win install disk and during drivers installation press F6 and if it tell you to insert flopi disk with raid drivers, just do it. Ofcorse, you have to make that raid disk pefore you start installation. You can use software given by Asus, or download it from asus web page. There is nothing complex with that MB to have RAID working.
I made my RAID couple of monthes ago therefore it might happen, I made a mistake somewhere in here but I do not think so.

Also ,even if you have SATA II drive, you WILL NEVER see a 300 mb/s speeds. Forgwet it. Even two SATAII (10000 rpm) in RAID0 will hardly give you that (real)speed.