Need advice on a Hardware Raid 0 solution card

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I want to run two 4 TB drives in Raid 0

I am using the controller currently on the motherboard, but it is a bit flaky.

Is there a card that might work better and not be too expensive?>
 
"Flaky"? "Work better"?

Kinda hard to suggest anything when you're not telling us exactly what's going on or what improvements you're looking for or what you see as expensive.
 
Your right. I apologize.


What I mean by flaky is I lose the Array sometimes where it just disappears. I reboot and it comes back. But may disappear at any time.

I am thinking that maybe a stand alone Raid card would do better. It is just for the two drives.


I was hoping to keep it at 75 bucks or less.
 
No problemo, and thanks for clarifying.

Which two drives are you using in a RAID 0? That could very well be the problem as well (in which case running them as individual drives would save you a lot of headache if the drives do not support features which help them stay in sync, as many consumer-class drives do not).
 
Are you sure that 1 of the drives is not going bad. Did you look at the SMART data for the individual drives. This behavior to me could be caused by a bad drive.

Need advice on a Hardware Raid 0 solution card
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My advice is do not use RAID0 on data you care about especially 4TB drives.
 
Are there any External USB cases that would work with two 4TB drives in a Jbod configuration?

Would that be better?
 
drescherjm said:
Use the Intel controller.
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I am not sure how to set up the Intel Raid controller. With the Marvel controller, I wait for the utility and then hit the key combination to get into the utility.


Not sure on the Intel one.
 
jordan12 said:
I am not sure how to set up the Intel Raid controller. With the Marvel controller, I wait for the utility and then hit the key combination to get into the utility.


Not sure on the Intel one.
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Set the SATA to RAID or RAID/AHCI in the BIOS
Then you should get the prompt during POST
 
Probably you are experiencing bad sectors, which causes your disks to drop out of the RAID. Do not use hardware RAID as it has the very same response to bad sectors: dropping disks from the RAID.

I suggest you do not use RAID at all but rather single disks, or use a better solution like ZFS.

If you must use onboard RAID aka FakeRAID, then indeed use Intel instead of Marvell. Though I suspect both respond the same to bad sectors.
 
The Marvell controller might just be junky sometimes, too. Put the drives on the intel ports.
 
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