Transitioning to Windows 11 while maintaining RAID configuration
Transitioning to Windows 11 while maintaining RAID configuration
Unless you own a server motherboard, the mainboard raid is essentially a software-based approach; there isn’t a special chip for raid calculations—it’s managed by your CPU in a more concealed way. *EDIT* Additionally, good raid systems can enable efficient data transfer.
Hmmm, there's clearly something else going on. I'm assuming the BIOS does recognize the drives are connected? Yes, sounds like you've done your research and kept off of SATA port 0 Interesting! I think you understand, but just in case someone else looks at this: RAID is not a backup. This is a commonly-confused concept of availability and redundancy (the R in RAID) being confused with a backup . For example, if your RAID drives get hit with ransomware... RAID will not save you... RAID will blindly encrypt all of your files without any care in the world. RAID 5 is there for availability (one drive dies and you can replace it while using the system ( in theory anyway !). A backup is impervious to this made-up ransomware scenario because it's a backup. A cloud backup etc. where you can either roll-back to previous versions or restore files from another area. Yes, only the drives in the array may have issues being detected by the typical drive tools. What about doing this ? Super fast and easy. That makes a lot of sense that you want to combine the drives, and yes, RAID 0 should be quite a bit faster. Just remember with 2x HDD in RAID 0, if one drive has any issues. Your data is gone on both drives! Great question I didn't cover initially (but probably should have.) Generally, any RAID does cause some workload for the CPU that wouldn't have been there before, but it's (normally) negligible. The latency impacts are what can be noticeable in certain drive workloads. Yes, I agree with your assessment. The RAID is independent of the OS, but things get complicated when you want to boot from a RAID array... because now the OS has to have all right drivers and settings configured to see all the partitions etc. and talk to the RAID controller during boot. Your theory should be correct in the event of a boot drive failure, and since you have an Intel board, there's a good chance using another Intel board with Intel RST support on the motherboard would allow you to pop-in your RAID disks, configure that new board for RAID and the array would appear without issue. But, you can do the same thing with an array that you configured using Intel RST inside of Windows. Neither RAID array is "tied" to the system you configured it on. And because RAID is all dependent on how that specific vendor chooses to implement RAID there is no guaranteed compatibility of RAID arrays between different brands, systems etc. (unless you were buying hardware RAID cards) which is a whole 'nother thing. My understanding at least, is that if you configured the RAID array on the motherboard, and then tried to use that array in say an AMD motherboard... that is where it would not work at all. Someone else may know more though... RAID compatibility and complexity can be very crazy, and I'm trying to avoid getting into even more details.
your windows are using two nvme drives in raid 0. you had windows 10, forgot your glasses one day, started the computer, clicked update, and when you came back it was windows 11. the raid 0 setup works fine on windows 11.
I don't understand why I assumed the motherboard RAID had a dedicated chip. I believed that was the main purpose. Actually, it's just to allow booting from the array—maybe for some reason. On a 2023 motherboard with several Gen 4 NVMe M.2 slots, these kinds of interesting tech details are what I'm here for.
I've been using this since 2018—it really speeds up. Still running on Gen 3 PCIe NVMe drives. It's safer than HDD RAID 0... I've bought quality NVMe SSDs. You get what you pay for. It comes down to philosophy, I guess. I keep my important files in the cloud and sync them regularly, so if something fails, I don't lose much data.
You're working with NVMe RAID on an HDD setup. While NVMe drives are incredibly fast, even a RAID0 configuration of HDDs can't match the speed of SSDs. NVMe cards perform better out of the box than any RAID pair of traditional hard drives. If you cache an SSD as a buffer for an HDD, the overall performance drops compared to using just an SSD. For budget-friendly options, a small Chinese 128GB SSD can be a great deal and offers solid speed improvements over those older RAID configurations. People often focus on Benjamin but forget about the actual cost in dollars. They’re too insignificant.