Hello
Thanks in advance for any help
Building a new rig and I want to use to use 2 500gb WD caviar Black hds in raid 0. I have a WD caviar black 1tb for backup and storage. Do I need a pci controller of some sort or can I use the motherboard (Asus m4a797 deluxe) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131363 )
How do I set the 1tb to backup the raid 0 disks automatically? Software? Only using one video card at this time. Performance is my goal, video editing and gaming. Any other recommendations I would love to hear...
Build components
Asus m4a797 deluxe
phenom x4
ddr3 1600 4gb
windows 7 pro
Asus ati 5770 video card
Have you an option in the bios for Raid?
If so just enable it!
Then as the rig boots, you should see it say "Ctrl + I" to enter Raid setup!
Just go in there and follow your nose and make the "Stripe Raid" choosing the 2x 500GB drives!
Then continue to install Windows.
When you are installing you should just see two drives.
Install to the raid array, then in windows 7 you can use the "Backup and Restore" to make an Image of the Raid Array! On the 1TB drive
Then if things go wrong, you just boot with the Windows disk and restore from Backup
Originally Posted by Old Hippie
His is an AMD MB and I think "CTRL + F" is the combo he needs to enter the RAID BIOS.
AFAIK there's no auto backup program.
You can do time saving incremental backups with most programs and my favorite is Acronis.
No auto backup program? Come again?
Acronis *should* be able to do a full system-to-image backup either manually, or on a scheduled basis. You can create multiple images if you have the space for it.
If running Windows XP, you can do the same with NTBackup, just requires a bit of knowledge to do so.
You can also get Symantec BackupExec to do it, though that's more of a business-level program.
There are also a bunch of 3rd party programs. Any program that has a command-line option means you can make it auto-run with a Windows Task.
Includes instructions on automated backup. Unfortunately I've never used it - I personally use other ways of backup & restore - so I can't tell you how easy it is or how good the performance would be.
I guess when I think of "automatic backup" I think of a RAID1 type of thing that would automatically mirror the changes done to the system drive in real time.
I guess when I think of "automatic backup" I think of a RAID1 type of thing that would automatically mirror the changes done to the system drive in real time.
I think of any other thing as a "timed backup".
lol, well, in your case, check out ViceVersa Free/Pro...
If you have two (or more) systems, and you can get a server OS on it, you can use Microsoft's DFS implementation. I do that. I real-time replicate my critical data to 4 different servers, all running RAID-1 arrays, so to lose *everything* requires a loss of 8 hard-drives.... or a single asteroid strike...
AAR, the importance of saving the data on a RAID0 array is something I can't stress enough.
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