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DrPepper
04-25-2008, 12:34 AM
Ok I have 2 40gb IDE HDD's and I need help setting them up in raid :cool: just as an experiment. Can anyone give any basic help for me.
CrackerJack
04-25-2008, 12:35 AM
XP or Vista?

You'll have to re-install either one your using. Vista is easy to use with RAID, I think. XP with the motherboard disc (raid drivers), still doesn't see my raid! :mad: I did have a RAID0 setup, but started to have problems. It's a pain to get dual boot to work on a RAID, but by the time i got it working. I didn't won't anymore. ha ha
DrPepper
04-25-2008, 03:42 PM
Its Vista but that is installed on another disc. I was thinking about setting up a server edition 2008
nflesher87
04-25-2008, 03:44 PM
Its Vista but that is installed on another disc. I was thinking about setting up a server edition 2008

you already have an IDE RAID card to use with them?
kenkickr
04-25-2008, 04:23 PM
Here is a way to setup RAIDs without buying additional hardware for win2000 and XP so shouldn't be a problem for Server 2008:

http://www.techimo.com/articles/index.pl?photo=149
twicksisted
04-25-2008, 06:47 PM
Here is a way to setup RAIDs without buying additional hardware for win2000 and XP so shouldn't be a problem for Server 2008:

http://www.techimo.com/articles/index.pl?photo=149

software raid is crap and pointless... sorry to be harsh, but its true :)
For raid 1... it could be usefull for backup purposes(but very slow)... and for raid 0 , its a waste of time
DrPepper
04-25-2008, 09:37 PM
Well how much are raid cards for IDE these days.
ex_reven
04-26-2008, 04:30 AM
software raid is crap and pointless... sorry to be harsh, but its true :)
For raid 1... it could be usefull for backup purposes(but very slow)... and for raid 0 , its a waste of time

I got pretty good performance increases in a software raid...
CrAsHnBuRnXp
04-27-2008, 03:47 AM
software raid is crap and pointless... sorry to be harsh, but its true :)
For raid 1... it could be usefull for backup purposes(but very slow)... and for raid 0 , its a waste of time

I could transfer over from my RAID-0 array on my OS drive ~10GB of music in under 3 minutes using software raid (on the motherboard). I dont see that as pointless.
DrPepper
04-27-2008, 07:52 AM
software raid is crap and pointless... sorry to be harsh, but its true :)
For raid 1... it could be usefull for backup purposes(but very slow)... and for raid 0 , its a waste of time

Even if it is crap and pointless I want to know so I can learn how to do it in the future.
ex_reven
04-27-2008, 09:01 AM
Even if it is crap and pointless I want to know so I can learn how to do it in the future.

Its simple. But its important to know that setting up RAID will require formatting your drives.

Plug in drives.
Go into bios - set drives to RAID instead of IDE.
Raid configuration utility should now appear during bootup.
Create RAID array by following the prompts in the utility.
Reboot and install windows xp, loading your raid drivers off a floppy disk that you created using the raid disk creator on your mobo cd.
Thats it.

If you want a dual boot with vista. You can then use xp to run Norton partition magic and create a partition on your hard drives to seperate the two OS's. Reboot and install Vista on the other partition.

If you are prepared with the software and hardware, its piss easy.
Id just like to also say that the RAID setup isnt the same for all hardware, but it should be pretty similar.
I used the Intel Matrix Raid setup rather than JBOD or the Jmicron onboard raid ports.