nvidia RAID 10 broken into two RAID 10 drive sets

[Guest]

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]]

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

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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

 

[Alun Harford]

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

 

[Kerry Brown]

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_wit...5/iTunes-is-trying-to-destroy-my-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.

 

[Guest]

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