Can i set up 4 hdd's as Raid 0

Jada · Post by **Jada** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:19 pm

Need some help, Ive built a server and I want to raid 0 with the 4 hdd's Ive got in the PC, but it will only allow two of the disks to be setup as raid 0.

I need all 4 working in raid 0, anyone know where im going wrong.

Asus P4C800

SATA Drives, Winxp

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:24 pm

The ICH5 only supports two disks in a RAID. Nothing you are doing wrong the Chipset doesn't support it. You need an add in card if you want more than 2 in a RAID.

Jada · Post by **Jada** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:41 pm

ScottE wrote:The ICH5 only supports two disks in a RAID. Nothing you are doing wrong the Chipset doesn't support it. You need an add in card if you want more than 4 in a RAID.

Damn ok i have 4 Sata hdd's installed just setup windows and of course only can see the 2 hdd's in Raid 0, all i really need is to have these 4 hdd's working i dont need this PC as raid, is there a way i can have all drives working non raid, my board has 4 sata ports.

Thanks..

Faust · Post by **Faust** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:45 am

4 drives and 4 sata ports. i dont see a problem. unless the RAID controller doesnt support normal ATA/SATA drive configs.

on the RAID side, does that controller support RAID 0+1? you'd only get 1/2 the space (compared to the grand total space between all the drives), but the striped array would have 2x the fault tolerance (by mirroring the striped volume). that would be my choice is i wanted to put all 4 drives to work, 'specially since it's in a server.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:04 am

Jada wrote:Ive built a server and I want to raid 0

The words "Server" and "RAID 0" in the same sentence should scare the heck out of you. Either RAID 0/1, or 5 them.

Jada · Post by **Jada** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:18 am

YeOldeStonecat wrote: The words "Server" and "RAID 0" in the same sentence should scare the heck out of you. Either RAID 0/1, or 5 them.

Hi, Ive split the Raid into two, after my first post here i re-did the Raid array and formatted windows then installed some drivers from motherboard disk and this time the other 2 hdd's showed as one large 600 gig hdd, so now i have 2 600 gig hdd's showing in windows, although im not quite sure what i did as Ive not slept and was/am tired, so im guessing i have 2 Raid 0.

Ill run a few programs to check this, the pc is running great.

Here is a pic of it.

http://www.jada1.plus.com/raid.JPG

Just done some checks and yes its two Raid 0.

ghost · Post by **ghost** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:30 am

With all those drives (and big drives too, that will have lots of data), why aren't you implementing some sort of redundancy? Remember RAID 0 = ZERO fault tolerance.

I would suggest what YOSC said. 0/1 or 5.

Redundancy is your friend.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:49 pm

ghost wrote:With all those drives (and big drives too, that will have lots of data), why aren't you implementing some sort of redundancy? Remember RAID 0 = ZERO fault tolerance.

I would suggest what YOSC said. 0/1 or 5.

Redundancy is your friend.

I learned my lesson the hard way and will never store important data on non-redundant arrays again.