RE: Expanding raid volume or any better options folks can recommen
- From: Nacho <Nacho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:03:08 -0800
Thanks everyone. This gives me some things to think about. The main issue
is reinstalling and configuring everything, a real pain especially the
digital downloaded media content. If anything can go wrong it usually does
too. I had two 250gig maxtors sata II's in a raid 0 configuration and backed
them up weekly to two separate ide drives and one failed 6 months after
install. Previously I've run with Maxtor for over 10 years without a single
failure. I got a total of 4 new Maxtor drives, setup raid 10 and reinstalled
everything and then pulled from backup, well wouldn't you know in the
transfer process 9ide to sata II) the first backup disk failed starting with
some I/O errors and then dos errors (4 year old drive), so I went to my
backups backup (another Maxtor drive a bit older, 6 years old) and in
transfer (again ide to Sata II) that disk failed, some funky IDE to Sata II
transfer issue apparently. All Maxtor drives were involved and I've never
had an issue prior with Maxtor. Murphy must be living next door. So i'm
running fine now with 4, 250 gig drives in a raid 10, but I'm down to 30 gigs
free space, not good.
One last question, if you clone a raid 10, O.S. and data, to one single 500
gig drive, what happens with the raid managment? I have an Intel D975xbx
board and utilize the intel matrix storage manager to setup the RAID, when
the O.S. and data get cloned I'm wondering how the matrix storage manager is
going to react if it's on one single disk but was setup to expect to be on 4?
Is it going to crash or corrupt data or something? Any ideas?
"Helping out" wrote:
Vista comes with a built in Partitioning tool i found..
Open "Control Panel" goto "System & Maintenance" scroll down too
Administrative tools and click on "Create & Format hard disk partitions" here
you can create or delete and format partintions by right clicking on the
drive and seletct "Extend Volume" to create a size, but its a little back
wards then what you think. say you have a 1TB drive like i do and you are
running windows on this, when you create an Extend Volume you are acculy
createing the size of the windows drive so say you want Vista to only run on
40 GB and it reads 900518, change that letter to 40518, your windows in now
running on a 40 gb partition. then on whats left you can now format that as
is or create others, like i did. now click on the 860 gb partition and select
to make say a 100gb partition, now you have a 40gb a 100 gb and a 760gb
partitions if you want to create another partition you have to select the
760g partition and extent that one.
you can also shrink partitions as well. but you have to format these
partitions beofre you can see then and use them.
PS once you format the partition though you can not extent them anymore. you
will have to delete the partition losing info on that partition, witch will
merg it with the last partition created. but it also seems that the only one
you can extend voloue from thats formated is when there is no more partitions
but the original. the only down side i have found.
"Nacho" wrote:
I have four 250 gig drives setup as raid 1+0 and am thinking of replacing
these with four 500 gig drives. However, this seems like such a waste of a
terabyte and I haven't seen a MCE compatible partitioning software.
I"m not sure what disk partitioning software is compatible with MCE.
Paragon Partition Manager seems to be a good software, but it's not supported
with MCE. My guess is it will likely work, but not sure I want to take that
chance. I wouldn't mind reinstalling everything, except digital music
downloaded from Napster and a few movies from movielink are the main stopping
point. I know I can copy these to disk and reload (in fact i have these
backed up as such), but everytime I reload music backed up as such media
player sees the songs as unknown titles and you have to edit each one and
find the media art, takes hours upon hours of time. Also movie link allows
you to install most movies on two pc's. A full o.s. reinstall will likely
cause it to think this is a second pc.
Raid 1+0 is nice but what a waste of space. This digital protection is
really killing us. Anyway, main questions
1. Anyone know of a good raid expansion utilitiy compatible with MCE, has
anyone tried paragon with it?
2. Any ideas how to convert raid 10 back to a more useable setup? I'm
thinking I could setup two 250 gig drives as raid 1 to protect the o.s. and
digital content, while adding two 500 gig drives as non raid and use these to
store data easily reloaded like cd's that i own. I"d like to be able to make
this swap if I go this route without having to do a full re-install because
of the digital liscencing issues and rebuilding artwork and the like as
mentioned above. I've also considered cloning the raid 1+0 to one of the 500
gig drives, but since i use intel matrix storage manager which is aware of
the raid 1+0, I'm not sure how it would react to sitting on 1 drive when it
nows it was on 4. Would this thing even boot?
Help, I'm starved for space, 30 gigs left and not sure what the best setup
is or how to get there.
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