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I have a GA MA785GT UD3H motherboard with Windows Server 2008 R2 installed on a RAID1 using the on-board RAID controller.
I have now installed a RocketRaid 2680 controller and set up a RAID5 for all my data to be stored on.
Unfortunately I now cannot boot from the RAID1 anymore, the PC is trying…
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My motherboard, an Asus M4a79t Deluxe, advertises RAID 0/1/5 capabilities. My limited understanding is that onboard RAID is better than software RAID. Is this necessarily true? Is an onboard RAID controller closer in performance to a software controller or a dedicated hardware controller?
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Is using mdadm's RAID-1 of 2 partitions (one on laptop's internal HDD, one on external HDD) a good idea.
I want the system to work as RAID-1 if both drives are present, work as regular volume (degradad RAID-1) if external HDD is unplugged and quickly resync when I plug external HDD again.
Questions:
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When using the SQLIO benchmark tool on a 4-core Dell server with 6 15k 450GB (fast) drives, RAID 0, we found the max throughput was 2MB per second. But when configured as RAID 5, we get 30 MB per second.
It seems that the RAID controller, Dell Perc 5i integrated controller, is maxing out the…
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I have Dell Poweredge server 2600 with Raid 5 in 3 hard drive Scsi 36gb each, it was fail to boot sinc the third drive is offline.
I attached Sata card adapter to Sata hard drive and install OS SERVER 2003 to it, downloaded drivers for Raid and everything goes fine when I use recovery data software…
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HI All,
I bought a new case to put a motherboard in. Everything fits, I have done this before, but not in a long time!
The case has wires for
- Power SW
- Reset SW
- Power LED
- HDD LED
On the motherboard (ASUS M2NPV-VM) it is clearly labeled where these go, but I cannot remember where the black…
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At some point last night we must have had a blip in our power, as the stove clock was blinking like it would had their been... a blip in the power.
When I came into my office this morning, my desktop computer was powered down and would not turn on. Cracking the case, I can see a small blue blinking…
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Welp, computer died. Time to get a new motherboard.
I haven't been paying attention to the latest motherboard technology and associated models and chipsets.
Can someone point me at an overview of what is currently available? I'm primarily interested in the Intel / nvidia side of things.
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Hi all,
Please redirect me if there is a similar question, but I have an ECS P4VXASD2+ (V5.0) motherboard, which supports a 533 MHz FSB. I want to put in a Pentium 4 3.2 GHz processor (Socket 478) with an FSB of 800 MHz. Would this be possible? Would the FSB of the processor just be limited to 533…
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I use the code from http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0580.html to get Motherboard Id, but the result is "null",
<1 How can that be ?
<2 Also I modified the code a bit to look like this to get processor Id :
"Set objWMIService = GetObject(\"winmgmts:\\\\.\\root\\cimv2\")\n"+
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