Just a follow up on my own post. This morning I did find and open Intel Matrix Storage Manager. It states All Drives are Ok. Then The system is functionally normally. No RAID volums presten. So how do I stop the message when booting "non RAID drives"? If this is done by clicking ctrl-I which option do I choose?
There is no way to stop the messages without changing from RAID to ATA in the BIOS. The Intel RAID BIOS is going to give you an opportunity to convery to RAID every time you boot.
Thanks that was my question, I didn't/don't know what RAID is. So the message I'm getting at startup stating that raid not detected is OK? My bios setting is RAID Autodetect I hate things changing. In my old Dell computer I just installed a second drive and that was it. Nothing fancy or complicated to pick from Thanks again
I'm not sure what RAID options you have in the 410, but my 400 has RAID Autodetect/ACHI, RAID Autodetect/ATA and RAID ON. Setting mine to RAID Autodetect/ACHI will not bring up the Intel Matrix ROM Utility (CTRL - I ) you see at boot up.
All that ROM utility is telling you is what hard drives you have installed, where they're installed and their status (RAID, non-RAID). If you ever want to use RAID be sure to READ your manual under the RAID section so you understand what the Utility will do when you have unformated drives versus drives with data.
Since you don't have RAID ON, you have nothing to worry about. :)
In computers, RAID (redundant array of inexpensive drives (or disks), also known as redundant array of independent drives (or disks)) refers to a data storage scheme using multiple hard drives to stripe or replicate data among the drives. Depending on the configuration of the RAID (typically referred to as the RAID level), the benefit of RAID is to increase data integrity, fault-tolerance, throughput and/or capacity, compared with single drives. In its original implementations, its key advantage was the ability to combine multiple low-cost devices using older technology into an array that offered greater capacity, reliability, speed, or a combination of these things, than was affordably available in a single device using the newest technology.
Thanks for the concise explanation. If you wouldn't mind? Why choose RAID 0 versus 1? My main goal is have a copy of my main drive....too many HD failures on DELL 8400 (motherboard too, system was haunted) where I lost a lot.
RAID 1 mirrors, but do I lose speed since there is always a backing up going on? Also, is Vista a problem with RAID?
I've never used RAID 0 because I have always wanted the redundancy for drive failure which RAID 1 provides. It appears you want the same data protection that I want. :)
With RAID 0, I've read different opinions where there is a noticable speed difference between 0 and 1, with 0 being faster on writes. Read speed seems to be unnoticable between the two. Also, RAID 0 gives more space as it combines the two hard drives into one and spreads the data writes across both drives. Others using RAID 0 in these forums can give you more information, hopefully.
Vista works fine with RAID. If the Intel Matrix Manager Software isn't installed, you will want to install it. This allows you to delete the RAID volume and for new RAID volumes, it allows you to create RAID volume from your existing hard drive.
I like raid 0 for the speed. I do digital image & video editing, so I back everything up religiously on a few external drives, and DVD's kept off site, so rather than the redundancy of a mirror, I enjoy the speed and performance of the stripe. I always used raptors and one night I was fooling around and decided to build a raid array to see for myself the difference, and I was shocked at how much quicker it was, not with benchmarks, but just seat of the pants increase in read/write access. It is however, more of a toy for me than a necessity.
As far as drive failures go, I've been fooling with this stuff since 1995, used WD drives exclusively, and have never had a drive fail, I probably just jinxed myself, but so far, I have never lost one. I don't keep 'em long enough to fail, LOL
Vista works fine with RAID. If the Intel Matrix Manager Software isn't installed, you will want to install it. This allows you to delete the RAID volume and for new RAID volumes, it allows you to create RAID volume from your existing hard drive.
If Vista works fine with RAID, why is it that Dell is not offering RAID with Vista on the XPS710 yet?
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In computers, RAID (redundant array of inexpensive drives (or disks), also known as redundant array of independent drives (or disks)) refers to a data storage scheme using multiple hard drives to stripe or replicate data among the drives. Depending on the configuration of the RAID (typically referred to as the RAID level), the benefit of RAID is to increase data integrity, fault-tolerance, throughput and/or capacity, compared with single drives. In its original implementations, its key advantage was the ability to combine multiple low-cost devices using older technology into an array that offered greater capacity, reliability, speed, or a combination of these things, than was affordably available in a single device using the newest technology.
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