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Post by Christian Veritas on Feb 10, 2008 18:49:26 GMT
Good lord, but this has been a lovely weekend! NOT!!! Friday night, my RAID Array crashed. In and of itself, that shouldn't have been a show stopper, though I WAS pissed about all the data that I lost (RAID 0). What I didn't take into account is that I wouldn't be able to boot my Vista partition either because the Part table, MBR, and Boot sector were located on the RAID array. I'm working with Ubuntu right now to see if I can get something done so that I can at least boot Vista, but it's not looking good. I'll try and be around with my Laptop at some point, but for now you'll have to count me out of anything because I'll be devoting all my time to fixing things. Chris
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Post by Stormy Eve on Feb 11, 2008 9:17:52 GMT
Sorry to hear that Chris. Hope you manage to save all your data and fix the RAID soon. I have missed my fellow shouter this weekend Good luck with hardware!
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Post by Dante Reims on Feb 11, 2008 12:02:41 GMT
Hey Chris, hope you manage to get it all sorted soon. I know what you're going through! Good luck dude!
Dante.
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Post by Christian Veritas on Feb 11, 2008 15:10:47 GMT
Update: After screwing around with Ubuntu for a little while and not doing anything different that I can see, the array seems to be functioning semi-normally. I'm booted into my Vista drive and am going to stay that way as I know that if I try to boot into XP, my array will go down again. Vista ran check disk and fixed a bunch of errors, but couldn't complete the process, so I'm going to try and get the data that I really need off of there and then rebuild it. GW is still out of the question on that box because the the gw stuff is on the array. I'll try to reinstall GW on my Hi-speed storage partition, but I don't know when that will be.
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Post by Christian Veritas on Mar 5, 2008 14:11:04 GMT
Well, now the entire array is gone and I'm left with a giant paperweight. It'll be some time before I can get everything rebuilt and functioning normally. I can play on my laptop for the time being, but I don't really have any place to set up. So I guess the long and short of it is that you guys won't be seeing me much until I can get my desktop fixed.
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Post by Mazz on Mar 5, 2008 15:18:16 GMT
Sorry to hear Christian - but better a computer crash than a life crisis (as long you can distinguish one from the other ... ) Hope to see you on-line as soon as possible, Mazz
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Post by Lee Roth on Mar 5, 2008 17:47:30 GMT
Yeah Chriss , MAzz is right. Hope to manage that problem soon. Will miss you till than here on the GW world ....
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Post by Zalis on Mar 5, 2008 20:14:20 GMT
That's rough, Chris. Good luck w/ getting it back into fighting shape. Then again - things can only get better from here on out.
Right? ;D
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Post by Christian Veritas on Mar 5, 2008 23:19:21 GMT
No comment.
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Post by Zalis on Mar 6, 2008 1:24:36 GMT
It's basically the only upside of hardware failure. Even a forced upgrade is still an upgrade, was my point.
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Post by Christian Veritas on Mar 6, 2008 18:01:18 GMT
Lol, a forced upgrade can only happen if you have the money to force it, which I don't right now And it will be better when I finally have the moeny to do it because I'll do a RAID 0+1.
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Post by Zalis on Mar 6, 2008 18:42:25 GMT
And it will be better when I finally have the moeny to do it because I'll do a RAID 0+1. I always get my RAIDs mixed up. Which way is 0+1?
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Post by Tanin'iver BlindDragon on Mar 6, 2008 20:08:37 GMT
Striping and mirroring combined. You need a minimum of 4 disks, or you can also use 6. The computer sees a RAID0 striping array with two drives, for double the performance of a single one, but each of the two drives is actually a RAID1 mirroring array itself, so if any of the drives fails, the array continues and nothing is lost, or even degraded in performance. Chris - have you considered RAID5? You can get great performance even with on-board RAID controllers on modern motherboards. My array has 197.2 Mb/s read, 141.6 Mb/s write, with 13 ms access time and fault tolerance. If you are interested, check out a thread I started on the Tech Report forums, with my findings on the RAID5 performance of Intel's ICH9R south-bridge chipset. I had to re-add the performance table onto the last page after their forum changed and broke my table, so look out for that: techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=757076&sid=528f7cbb16d3225b678b8c16873fcd2b
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Post by Dante Reims on Mar 7, 2008 11:53:57 GMT
Good luck getting it all fixed Chris ..... Heh .. I didn't really have the money to fix my PC when it broke but after I scraped all my pennies together I finally managed to do it, so start hunting for those coins down the back of the sofa and possibly roughing up some kiddies for thier lunch money Hope to see ya back soon!
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Post by Christian Veritas on Mar 7, 2008 17:43:07 GMT
The RAID 5 sounds like a good idea. $225 for a 640GB array (which is what my RAID 0 was) and I get fault tolerance, which means piece of mind.
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Post by paleblade on Mar 23, 2008 2:39:34 GMT
Do you guys really find running an RAID array necessary for gaming???
I know we have 3 disk stripping on the server at work [forgot what RAID that is] so if one goes down we put in a spare HDD, and the other 2 HDD's can rebuild the array again.
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Post by Tanin'iver BlindDragon on Mar 23, 2008 13:19:00 GMT
That would be RAID5 from the sounds of it Pale. As for necessary for gaming, not at all. I use the RAID array for my storage needs. My system drive, on which Windows and my games are installed, is a 150 Gb Western Digital Raptor. It does make for nice short loading times.
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Post by Christian Veritas on Mar 23, 2008 14:26:08 GMT
Same with me, but I actually install my operating system on the array because I figure if I'm going to have fault tolerance, I might as well use it for everything.
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Post by Zalis on Mar 23, 2008 15:07:02 GMT
My system drive, on which Windows and my games are installed, is a 150 Gb Western Digital Raptor. It does make for nice short loading times. I was wondering if they're worth it and whether or not they're as loud as some people claim.
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Post by Christian Veritas on Mar 24, 2008 1:13:19 GMT
Well, I can't say that I've noticed a whole lot of noise from my 74Gb Raptor, but then again I was running three hard drives (the RAID 0 plus the Raptor) AND I have a Vigor Gaming TEC CPU cooler, so noise isn't exactly foreign to me, not to mention that I also keep the side door off of the case and use a box fan to cool it down because the TEC radiates so much heat. So much, in fact, that the regular cooling system can't keep the motherboard and video cards from overheating.....talk about a drawback. Has anyone else had problems like that with TEC coolers?
So, in answer to your question: No, I don't think Raptors are that loud ;D
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