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New to RAID5. Is this normal?

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merlingt1

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I just got 2 more drives to go with my previous 2x250GB seagates (now a total of 4 identical drives). I tried setting the Intel matrix array to RAID 0 (70GB) and RAID5 (645GB). After I finished in the Intel Storage Manager I hit EXIT but it is hanging up I see something scrolling at the top of the screen (so it is not frozen) but it has been there at a black screen for almost 1 hour. Has the computer just hung up or is it actually doing something? I have never setup RAID5 before so I dunno anything about it. Should it take this long?

This is on the Asus P5K Premium (ICH9R)


Thanks
 
When you say you "added to an existing RAID", are you taking RAID migration? That takes a very long time.

In case you don't know, RAID migration is preserving the information that was already on your 500GB RAID and copying it over to the newly created setup. It is very time-consuming, because the BIOS has no concept of file systems. It is doing a full bit-by-bit copy of your entire 500GB RAID.
 
mavalpha said:
When you say you "added to an existing RAID", are you taking RAID migration? That takes a very long time.

In case you don't know, RAID migration is preserving the information that was already on your 500GB RAID and copying it over to the newly created setup. It is very time-consuming, because the BIOS has no concept of file systems. It is doing a full bit-by-bit copy of your entire 500GB RAID.
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no sorry, I meant I wiped out the previous array which was RAID0 + RAID1 and I created a new RAID0 and RAID5 matrix from scratch.

At least thats what I believe I did.... I chose delete (both previous RAIDs) and I created new ones then I simply exited the Intel Storage Manager
 
Hm. I'd still leave it overnight, because it probably needs to scan all of the drives to make sure they're 100% functional. What good is a RAID if there is a dead drive to begin with?
 
Well I am not sure why it hanged but after 2 hours I got tired and just hit ALT-CTRL-DEL and it booted fine and the array seems to be working fine. I verified them within the Windows Inter Storage Manager. So it is all good. Thanks
 
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