***THE INTRODUCTION***
Hey Fruitpunch,
So in this post ill cut right to the chase of what I want and will provide details below.
***THE PROBLEM***
I have a Raid 0 Spanned volume of discs(1) and S.M.A.R.T is telling me that one of the HDDs is going to fail.
Also the SATA connectors on the disc are somewhat broken,
I currently have the SATA cable solidered to the HDD (lol I know)
***THE CLIMAX***
I just got a new HDD(2) to replace it with.
***THE CONFLICT***
The idea is I don't want my current windows configuration to change at all.
Like I want windows to be exactly the same as the way it is now. Without a single problem.
***THE TOOLS***
I have a 1 TB external HDD that I think will aid me as well as Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD
***THE QUESTION***
What is the best way to do it?
Like can I turn my entire current array into a .iso i can store on the external drive.
then with the live Ubuntu CD dump it onto the new array after I swap the discs?
***THE DETAILS***
(1)
The Current Config consists of 3 HDDs
350GB 7200RPM HDD
150GB 7200RPM HDD
250GB 7200RPM HDD (Broken one to be swapped)
(2)
Replacement disc is a
500GB 7200RPM HDD (Brand new)
***THE CONCLUSION***
Also please avoid posts that troll me. Such as.
"Just get rid of the HDDs and go with SSDs so much faster! zomgbahlahralw..."
Kthxbai
~LuckyMonkey
Uhh.. It sounds like you have both no idea what you're talking about and no idea what you're doing.
I don't know why on earth you'd use heterogeneous drives in a RAID0 array, you're basically wasting 300 GB of space due to the tiny 150 GB drive. You aren't going to be able to rebuild that RAID0 array properly so the best choice would be to back up anything on it, destroy it and use the 500 GB drive alone with a fresh windows install.
[QUOTE=bohb;29046213]Uhh.. It sounds like you have both no idea what you're talking about and no idea what you're doing.
I don't know why on earth you'd use heterogeneous drives in a RAID0 array, you're basically wasting 300 GB of space due to the tiny 150 GB drive. You aren't going to be able to rebuild that RAID0 array properly so the best choice would be to back up anything on it, destroy it and use the 500 GB drive alone with a fresh windows install.[/QUOTE]
Actually I don't think I know what RAID0 means.
Its a spanned volume so all HDDs work as one but with no redundancy.
I have a loose interpretation of what RAID0 means since my BIOS calls it something else.
as in
350 + 150 + 250 = 750 GB
Still can you help me out?
Spanned volumes are more or less JBODs (just a bunch of disks). They differ significantly from RAID0.
On a JBOD, all disks in the JBOD are put together to form one large continuous linear virtual drive. Windows will treat the virtual drive like a real drive so you could have like 768 MB of a 1 GB file on one disk and 256MB of the same file on a different disk if it went between the disk addressing bounds.
RAID0 makes stripes of data (stripe size is a variable size depending on what you set when you made the array) and splits even and odd stripes between two or more drives, so both drives have roughly half of every file on the disk. Also to note you can't use heterogeneous drives in RAID0 (the RAID0 array will use the size of the smallest disk, so you lose the extra space on the larger disks.)
Depending on how you made the JBOD (in Windows or in the RAID controller BIOS) you may not be able to "fix" the JBOD by putting in the spare drive and rebuilding the contiguity of the JBOD. Since I don't know how you made the JBOD and I don't regularly mess with JBODs, I'd recommend reading the manual on the drive controller to see how to recover it.
You also may want to use HDD Tune to read the S.M.A.R.T. information on the hard drive to see why exactly the drive is failing. Posting a picture here would help to diagnose it.
Ok that actually makes sense (At least now I know what to call my array :3
Oh and my RAID/JBOD is done through the BIOS (Lol softraid seemed like a VERY bad idea)
I'm getting a S.M.A.R.T status every time I start my computer saying to
backup and replace the drive. (and its annoying as hell having to press F1 to resume every time i restart)
I do intend on replacing the HDD though since
[quote]Also the SATA connectors on the disc are somewhat broken,
I currently have the SATA cable solidered to the HDD (lol I know)[/quote]
I have a brand new 500GB HDD to replace it with.
Just wondering what would be the best way to transfer files without any change to windows.
I know many would say just reformat but I really really don't want to do that.
Finally got windows the way I want it and don't really want to go back to default stuff.
I currently have the SATA cable solidered to the HDD
uh why
The plastic connectors on the HDD are broken and If I even as slightly bump my computer It would become disconnected and windows would do some awesome error stuff.
(It was hilarious to watch)
But I became so frustrated that I ended up soldiering the SATA cables to the HDD so such things wouldn't happen.
You can try to clone the array. Or at least get some cloning software and see what happens.
Yeah thats exactly what I want.
But I need specifics what would I use to clone to and fro?
Run HD Tune:
[url]http://www.hdtune.com/[/url]
and see what exactly S.M.A.R.T. is bitching about.
As for the cloning, you could try using DriveImage XML:
[url]http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm[/url]
Or something like partition magic. I think Seagate's Disk Wizard can migrate partitions also, but I'm not sure.
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