RAID Help...W T F o.O

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kskwerl

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Hey everyone, ok so was my first time attempting to set up raid five.

I currently have in my computer (3) 500GB WD Sata drives (10) 1TB WD (1) Seagate Baracuda which my OS (vista ultimate 64-bit) is installed on. I recently had built this system a few months ago. So here are some specs on the mobo:

Foxconn AD7A-S w/ Phenom 9850, 8GB DDR 9600gt blah blah blah.

I had Vista previously installed but I was learning about RAID 5 in my networking class and I really thought it would be neat to have one. Not necessary...neat.

Now before I went to reinstall vista I wiped all the HD's clean and enabled RAID in the BIOS and went into the utility and set it for raid 5. I had enabled the 3 WD disks that I was going to use for raid five but when I go into disk managment all I see is the C: 80GB Boot partition Disk (0) and D: 1TB NTFS Partition Disk (1).

Where are the other three disk? I want to cry like a little girl, someone plz help me!
 

My Computer

System One

Sounds right, you're seeing a 1TB RAID5 array where you see the capacity of two disks combined with a third being used for parity information to repair the array should one disk fail.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Own build
    CPU
    AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition 2.7GHz AM2+ OC'd to 3.1GHz
    Motherboard
    ASROCK N68-S GeForce 7025 Socket AM2+
    Memory
    Crucial 4GB Kit (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz PC2-6400 Memory
    Graphics Card(s)
    Onboard GeForce 7025
    Sound Card
    Onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung MagicBright 22" CRT
    Screen Resolution
    1600x1200 @ 75Hz
    Hard Drives
    2 x Western Digital WD3200AAKS 320GB SATAII 16MB Cache 7200RPM drives in RAID0 array, 100GB system partition, 540GB storage partition
    PSU
    Compaq 250W
    Case
    Compaq
    Cooling
    Stock CPU cooler, stock case cooler
    Keyboard
    Compaq
    Mouse
    USB optical
    Internet Speed
    680kbs
Davva2004 said:
Sounds right, you're seeing a 1TB RAID5 array where you see the capacity of two disks combined with a third being used for parity information to repair the array should one disk fail.
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Thanks Davva!

Now another thing, if 1 of those 3 disks fails...how do I know which one it is?
 

My Computer

System One

If you're using the RAID on your motherboard, it'll tell you on there when you enter the diagnostics.

If you use a RAID card, the software that comes with that should tell you.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Built
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
    Motherboard
    XFX MB-750I-72P9 NF750i
    Memory
    4096MB Corsair XMS2 PC-5400
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS Nvidia Geforce GTX470
    Sound Card
    ASUS Xonar DX
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell 24" S2409W & Dell 20" E207WFP
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080 & 1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    750GB Western Digital Caviar Black & 500GB Samsung
    PSU
    750 watt Thermaltake Toughpower
    Case
    Coolermaster Dominator 690 Nvidia Edition
    Cooling
    Zalman CNPS9700-NT Cooler, 6x 120mm Chassis Fans
    Keyboard
    Logitech G11 Keyboard
    Mouse
    Logitech G5 Laser Mouse (2007 edition)
    Internet Speed
    100Mbps
    Other Info
    abit airpace 54mbps wireless PCI-E x1 card
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