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broken sata connector and a couple of general sata questions!
Hi guys,
I somehow managed to break the connector for the data cable on the back of one of my SATA drives :-( apparently its quite a common problem but I have yet to read about any decent remedies.... I was quite fortunate in that I managed to wedge the broken bit of plastic into the cable connector and get it working again - should be fine as long as I dont kick my PC too much :-) So my question: I have two SATA drives in a RAID 0 configuration and was wondering - if I wanted to replace one drive is there any way I can back an image of it onto an old IDE drive then restore it to the new SATA drive? Its obviously possible with a normal drive but as this one is half of the RAID 0 set I was curious what I would "see" on the drive when it was connected on its own and if indeed I could mirror its contents. Also, what happens in XP if one of your two RAID 0 disk gets disconnected? I know SATA drives are hot swappable but would the system just die since the set appears as one disk to windows? cheers guys for any info! Gav |
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broken sata connector and a couple of general sata quest
About the 1 of 2 disconnect problem, it is likely that any open
handles held by windows to files will be lost, Buffers will not be flushed to disk, and the last filesystem operation will not succeed, however; As far as completely corrupting your FS...NOPE, windows would detect the missing disc and the OS Kernel would issue the HLT instruction to your CPU to prevent further damage to the system.. As far as backing op 1 of 2 RAID-0 drives...I wouldn't reccommend trying with standard backup tools, google it and you will see that there are special tools available for backing up RAID arrays that are pretty much guaranteed to work for you |
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broken sata connector and a couple of general sata quest
Mitochondrion wrote: About the 1 of 2 disconnect problem, it is likely that any open handles held by windows to files will be lost, Buffers will not be flushed to disk, and the last filesystem operation will not succeed, however; As far as completely corrupting your FS...NOPE, windows would detect the missing disc and the OS Kernel would issue the HLT instruction to your CPU to prevent further damage to the system.. As far as backing op 1 of 2 RAID-0 drives...I wouldn't reccommend trying with standard backup tools, google it and you will see that there are special tools available for backing up RAID arrays that are pretty much guaranteed to work for you Awsome thanks for the replies guys! The thing is still working and I have made a backup so I think I will just leave it and see how it lasts. Another option (as I have only 2 SATA connectors on my mobo) is that I might get a raptor HDD and a USB connector and mirrror my system onto that then stick that in as my main drive.... I tihnk I wont lose much speed giving up the RAID 0 for a Raptor. |
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broken sata connector and a couple of general sata quest
The Idea of backing up the whole array is VERY safe alternative, but I
think the real issue here is not complete loss of the array but rather the defective disk only, yes 1/2 disks from a RAID array wuold not be usable on it's own. However, restored to a new Disk (Byte for Byte) A backup of the entire array is not required and it is more efficient to back up just the defective disk. Follow your gut...If it was MY machine I would upgrade both disks and copy the entire array, because RAID works better on IDENTICAL disks ie (model size, revision even) |
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