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<blockquote data-quote="AIstudio" data-source="post: 373338" data-attributes="member: 63135"><p>I was unaware of that.</p><p>The reason for RAID is for secure data storage, or so I am led to believe. I had to use a card of some description as the on board controllers don't support the LBA of 1TB drives. I have 3TB of storage space with the RAID 5 array. This is split into music, films, games etc.</p><p>I can understand why it doesn't work as the Bios on the RAID card doesn't get booted when coming out of sleep. I just wondered if someone knew how to get around that issue and maybe could boot the Bios on the raid card at desktop level?</p><p>The other main reason is that the RAID array I have is in my Media PC (HTPC) and not in a NAS or network server etc. I don't want the media center on all the time, as you can probably appreciate. I was thinking of building a server to host everything and supply the clients. This would solve the problem but would create another for me.</p><p></p><p> • Cost</p><p> • Server on 24/7 ?? (maybe its not needed to?)</p><p> • Would the server need to go to sleep so that it isn't on all the time and I would have the RAID sleep problem again?</p><p></p><p>I am looking into your suggestions now though as I have no idea what they are or do?</p><p>Thanks for the pointers I do appreciate it as I was thinking I would just have to live with this.</p><p></p><p>Regards</p><p></p><p>Kev</p><p></p><p>looking into disparity and FlexRaid. </p><p>As these are software is my logic right here.</p><p></p><p>I could backup all my data first.</p><p>Then remove the RAID card and wipe all 4 x 1TB drives clean.</p><p>I could then just connect them as individual SATA discs to the motherboard ports.</p><p>Then I could install disparity or flexraid and use say 3 drives for archiving and the remaining one for pointing at for the parity data?</p><p></p><p>If a drive died I would remove it, put in a new one and rebuild it from the parity data.</p><p></p><p>You will have to forgive my ignorance as this is new ground to me. </p><p></p><p>That would surely fix my current situation and I wouldn't need a raid card anymore <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>I would be very interested as to your advice.</p><p></p><p>Regards</p><p></p><p>Kev</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AIstudio, post: 373338, member: 63135"] I was unaware of that. The reason for RAID is for secure data storage, or so I am led to believe. I had to use a card of some description as the on board controllers don't support the LBA of 1TB drives. I have 3TB of storage space with the RAID 5 array. This is split into music, films, games etc. I can understand why it doesn't work as the Bios on the RAID card doesn't get booted when coming out of sleep. I just wondered if someone knew how to get around that issue and maybe could boot the Bios on the raid card at desktop level? The other main reason is that the RAID array I have is in my Media PC (HTPC) and not in a NAS or network server etc. I don't want the media center on all the time, as you can probably appreciate. I was thinking of building a server to host everything and supply the clients. This would solve the problem but would create another for me. • Cost • Server on 24/7 ?? (maybe its not needed to?) • Would the server need to go to sleep so that it isn't on all the time and I would have the RAID sleep problem again? I am looking into your suggestions now though as I have no idea what they are or do? Thanks for the pointers I do appreciate it as I was thinking I would just have to live with this. Regards Kev looking into disparity and FlexRaid. As these are software is my logic right here. I could backup all my data first. Then remove the RAID card and wipe all 4 x 1TB drives clean. I could then just connect them as individual SATA discs to the motherboard ports. Then I could install disparity or flexraid and use say 3 drives for archiving and the remaining one for pointing at for the parity data? If a drive died I would remove it, put in a new one and rebuild it from the parity data. You will have to forgive my ignorance as this is new ground to me. That would surely fix my current situation and I wouldn't need a raid card anymore :) I would be very interested as to your advice. Regards Kev [/QUOTE]
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