I am trying to add data drives to NAS4free and have had similar trouble with a couple of different cards. Previously I was using an Adaptec PCI card and ended up loosing the raid utility on the card and finally used software raid.
This install is on a Jmicron card. I have configured the card as hardware raid 1 using two drives. When NAS4free loads the drives show up individually in the disk management rather than as a unit. I can format and then mount the drive but have no raid. Rebooting, the card shows the raid degraded.
There seems to be quite a bit of info on software raid but hardware raid should just work?
Looking at the boot screen it appears that geom_raid is doing something with the drives.
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hardware raid
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ChriZathens
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Re: hardware raid
I suggest you ditch hardware raid and go for software raid, or, even better, raidz1
Even if the motherboard crashes, you move your raidz1 to other machine and your data is intact...
IMHO Sata/SAS Raid Controllers with n4f are only useful because they offer additional ports for more disks, nothing else..
Even if the motherboard crashes, you move your raidz1 to other machine and your data is intact...
IMHO Sata/SAS Raid Controllers with n4f are only useful because they offer additional ports for more disks, nothing else..
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Re: hardware raid
+1
hardware raids endanger the ability to recover from an expansion card or MOBO [hardware raid] failure.
you may need to replace the bad component with the exact same one to recover the hardware raid's data!
whereas, a copy of the software [raid] is easily moved to other and possibly dissimilar or newer hardware.
Please don't paint your self into a corner with hardware raid!!!!
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no matter how redundant the array, it should never be the only copy of important data.
hardware raids endanger the ability to recover from an expansion card or MOBO [hardware raid] failure.
you may need to replace the bad component with the exact same one to recover the hardware raid's data!
whereas, a copy of the software [raid] is easily moved to other and possibly dissimilar or newer hardware.
Please don't paint your self into a corner with hardware raid!!!!
PS
no matter how redundant the array, it should never be the only copy of important data.
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