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Post by [-44-] Pendragon on Jul 24, 2008 12:43:48 GMT
It's a killer, OK in my case it's killed my system. I know it's all my own fault but I want to blame some one and you lot will do. I went online last night for a game but there was no one around. Instead of playing a game on my own I thought I would have a poke around my system to see what I could see.
Well here's a thing, RAID hard drive setups are more sensitive than you think! Well more sensitive than I thought!!! they defiantly don't like there boot sectors written to by an application that's not aware it writing to a stripped RAID array, that's for sure!
The upshot of my complete stupidity ("what's the worse that can happen" approach to system tweaking) I have lost all of the 350+Gb of data on my drives! Before you ask no it's not backed up, well not the bulk of it anyhow. And yes it looks like I'm back to being a privet in CoD:4! AGAIN!!! fourth time is the charm, I'm sure.
I wonder if I can over take Atomic again to the race to make top rank for a fourth time before he makes it for the first??? there is a challenge, and you know I like a challenge.
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Post by [-44-] Hogan on Jul 24, 2008 16:53:20 GMT
Rearrange this popular saying.........
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Post by HogGoblin5 on Jul 24, 2008 17:44:00 GMT
Sorry to hear that m8 Something similar happened to me a yr or so ago when a mb went awol as the mb was no longer in production I had to change and guess what, I lost everything too as the enw mb wanted to set the arrays up again. After that I looked closely at raid and tbh unless you are transferring large files across the drives or mirroring the array for datarecovery reasons raid is of no need. I tested this out in practice running vista by firstly transferring large files from one drive to another dont get me wrong speeds were good. I then transferred small files speeds were also good. But then I transferred the same files on drives not assigned to raid and guess what the smaller files transferred quicker larger ones slightly slower but not enough to warrant the need for raid. After which I took the arrays offline and run the hard drives on their own now my main reasons being I dont need to mirror as I have to run seperate backup software on a daily basis so none of my clients data is lost, the thought of one of the hds failing and losing the lot was always on my mind and running each drive seperately doesn't cause drive lag when you want to use different drives for different processes.
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