Vista - nvidia RAID 10 broken into two RAID 10 drive sets

I am using 4 WD Raptor drives in a RAID 10. Twice the RAID has been
corrupted and the Bios tells me that I have two RAID 10's. I can still boot
to Vista (32) from each 2 disk set. One - has anyone else seen this happen?
Two - is there an easy way to rebuild the array or do I have to clone the
drive(s) and rebuild the array and then clone back? Thanks....Tom

Why RAID is (usually) a Terrible Idea
http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles?&id=29

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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"tomschleis" wrote:

I am using 4 WD Raptor drives in a RAID 10. Twice the RAID has been
corrupted and the Bios tells me that I have two RAID 10's. I can still boot
to Vista (32) from each 2 disk set. One - has anyone else seen this happen?
Two - is there an easy way to rebuild the array or do I have to clone the
drive(s) and rebuild the array and then clone back? Thanks....Tom

Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
> Why RAID is (usually) a Terrible Idea
> http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles?&id=29

Is it just me, or did that guy just admit to only selling rubbish RAID
arrays?
And did he just compare the hassle of a degraded RAID array (where
you'll get a warning when the computer boots, and the system will
automatically sort out the problem in the background while you work
normally) with a hard drive failure resulting in complete data loss?

I'd say that's not a good place to buy a computer from!

Alun Harford

"tomschleis" <tomschleis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:573E6087-A091-4D4D-8563-6A30D1B4FC24@microsoft.com...
>I am using 4 WD Raptor drives in a RAID 10. Twice the RAID has been
> corrupted and the Bios tells me that I have two RAID 10's. I can still
> boot
> to Vista (32) from each 2 disk set. One - has anyone else seen this
> happen?
> Two - is there an easy way to rebuild the array or do I have to clone the
> drive(s) and rebuild the array and then clone back? Thanks....Tom


Do you have iTunes installed?

http://cs.rthand.com/blogs/blog_with...y-RAID-10.aspx

All of the people in the link that have experienced this are using Intel
chipset RAID controllers so it may not apply.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca

Kerry: No I hadn't gotten to installing iTunes yet, but thanks for the
warning. Tom

"Kerry Brown" wrote:

> "tomschleis" <tomschleis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:573E6087-A091-4D4D-8563-6A30D1B4FC24@microsoft.com...
> >I am using 4 WD Raptor drives in a RAID 10. Twice the RAID has been
> > corrupted and the Bios tells me that I have two RAID 10's. I can still
> > boot
> > to Vista (32) from each 2 disk set. One - has anyone else seen this
> > happen?
> > Two - is there an easy way to rebuild the array or do I have to clone the
> > drive(s) and rebuild the array and then clone back? Thanks....Tom
>
>
> Do you have iTunes installed?
>
> http://cs.rthand.com/blogs/blog_with...y-RAID-10.aspx
>
> All of the people in the link that have experienced this are using Intel
> chipset RAID controllers so it may not apply.
>
> --
> Kerry Brown
> Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
> http://www.vistahelp.ca
>
>
>