raid configuration

If you’re looking to boost your drive speeds while adding an extra layer of data redundancy on your Windows PC, software RAID using Windows’ built-in Storage Spaces might just be the solution. In this article, we explore the ins and outs of software RAID, guide you through a step-by-step setup...

In the realm of IT, there's a lingering specter that prays on system administrators: the mysterious disappearance of disk space. This enigma was recently described by an IT professional struggling to understand "Where did my Windows Server's disk space disappear to?" They had conducted typical...

hello i have swapped my LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i with an exact replacement . because my disks raid was not running correct and would start or keep asking to update drives. saying drivers needed update but the best and only driver are installed. so i was thinking raid card was bad...

How do you recover data/repair from a drive failure in Windows 10 Storage Spaces? I have 4X 4TB drives configured as RAID 1 (mirroring). I assumed that meant that a copy of the data was also stored on the other drives since only 8TB of the 16TB is available. I ID'd the failing drive and...

Hi all, We have a legacy Fujitsu Server with just 4x HDD bays (4x disks) - we have 2 mirrored arrays and one of the array is small and we need to upgrade the disks with larger disks but retaining all the data inside. As far as I know the below procedure should work well: - TAKE A FULL BACKUP...

Where do I begin... This recently started happening, I don't know when but I think it was yesterday or the day before, prior to this I've never even seen Windows go into "Resuming Windows", it would just wake up from it's sleeps. But now it seems that every single time I put it to sleep it...

My question is I have 3 hard disk and configured with raid 5 if one hard disk fails will data be continue to written on other two hard disk and. will user be able to access or retrieve old data until we put the new hard disk.

Well, I've been working on this for a couple of days now, and I've researched this issue like crazy, but nothing I've found covers my situation, so I'm looking for some advanced help, please. I'm trying to perform a clean (custom) install of Windows 7 Pro 64-bit from the original retail DVD...

Hi! I am having trouble installing windows 7 (home premium) on my new raid array (2x intel 330 120GB SSD in RAID0) Basically, windows CAN see the raid volume. it recognies that there is a single 223 GB volume available. I select "Load Driver" for the volume, and plug in my trusty USB with...

Hello, I have an ASUS P8Z86-V PRO/GEN3 Motherboard ASUS GTX 580 ENGTX580 DCII/2DIS/1536MD5 Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz 16 GB RAM OCZ Agility3, bios 2.15 (Updated) SSD Boot Western Digital WD2002FAEX 2TB Drive Western Digital WD30EZRX 3 TB Drive 3 Raided Western...

I have a couple of questions on Win7 (Home Premium SP1) System Image. Not sure if this is right place to post this but the primary question is around System Image. Currently running Windows 7 on a Gigabyte GA-A75M-UD2H with RAID Option ROM Version 3.3.1540.11 . I have had some "challenges"...

Hello, I have this issue with my system randomly restartings and BSOD'ing. I went into my event viewer and this is the data it gave me. I've tried an entire system whipe, i fully reformatted my drives, updated my BIOS, performed a system FIX/ disk check, no viruses, all drivers are up todate...

I recently published a commentary/news video listed here about Windows 8 boot times. People have been arguing ever since. One guy even claims he hasn't updated his computer ever since installing Windows 7 to improve his boot time. Too bad he has missed out on stability and reliability...

I have just built a new computer. And am getting BSODs. Here's my notes on them: Errors Codes are as follows: (I didn't write the codes down the first 2 times) 3rd BSOD (3/22/11): *** STOP: 0x0000007F (0x0000000000000008, 0x0000000080050031, 0x00000000000006F8, 0xFFFFF80003888F72) 4th BSOD...

hi guys can anyone tel me if i can retrieve data from my 2x750gb (samsung Spinpoint)Hard disks that was at one point in raid 0 config (stripping) as this belonged to my old rig which used a separate hard disk for the OS(maxtor 80gb). Once this disk failed i just left it as it was. so its...

Hi All I'm not sure if this is the correct category to Post this thread in so if it is moved I understand. I was troubleshooting my Raid Zero Array C: drive and while installing a saved System Image, approximately 1.2TB of data on my Raid 1 Array storage drive disappeared. While I deleted the...

Hi - I'm new to the Forum and not sure if this is the right place to post this but here goes. I understand that unlike XP Pro, Win 7 Pro 32bit can handle up to 20 computers in a workgroup. I'd like to run it on a moderately high end dedicated workstation as a data server with 15 workstations...

After having a little fiddle in event viewer (as one does) to see what's going on.. i tried to close the viewer and a box appeared saying that i need to "close all dialog boxes first" before it will close. after closing ALL the boxes required again clicked close, and again the afore mentioned...

Hi! I have a trouble with self built PC. It just randomly reboots every few days with seemingly no visible clue to what causes it. All minidumps show the same error: BugCheckCode 0x3B, probably caused by win32k.sys and something to do with xxxWindowEvent+327. I have tried more conservative...

Hi, I put two HDDs on GA P55A-UD4P motherboard in Raid1 type array (on Intel SATA Controller) and they were working fine for quite some time (2 weeks or so). One day, after Windows started up, I noticed a blue icon on Intel RST manager and it says that the array is initializing. What does...