A few months ago I experienced the hard disk drive was corrupted unfortunately and the blue screen appeared while I was working in the office. Because of breakdown within the guarantee period, I didn't have to take on the responsibility. However, I have been faced with the
necessity to deal with an abrupt hardware failure. This is why I try to configure RAID 1 on my nForce 430 (MCP61).
First, I started in to enable RAID globally and on the individual SATA ports from Serial-ATA Configuration window in the System BIOS.
Figure 1 Serial-ATA Configuration window
After creating the RAID array using the RAID BIOS, MediaShield Utility window shows the RAID array healthy.
Figure 2 MediaShield Utility
The RAID prompt shows the RAID array healthy as a matter of cource.
Figure 3 RAID Prompt
You can rebuild the array from the Array Detail screen.
Figure 4 Array Detail Screen
You can use the arrow keys to select the disk.
Figure 5 Array Detail-1.0 selected
Figure 6 Array Detail-2.1 selected
Figure 7 Rebuild Array Prompt
During the rebuild MediaShield Utility window shows the RAID array rebuild.
Figure 8 MediaShield Utility
In addition, the RAID prompt shows the RAID array rebuild.
Figure 9 RAID Prompt
When you install Fedora 10 on the RAID array, you won't see /dev/sdax but /dev/mapper/nvidia_xxxxxxxx.
Figure 10 Fedora Select Partition window
When you install FreeBSD 7.1 on the RAID array, you won't select adx but ar0.
Figure 11 FreeBSD Select Drive window
Finally, we would confirm a part of RAID 1 performance using HDD benchmark software.
Figure 12 Figure 13
Figure 12 shows the case of the RAID array including several operating systems and Figure 13 shows the case of the RAID array not including operating systems.
Figure 14
Figure 12 and Figure 13 shows the case of the rotational speed which is 7200rpm and Figure 14 shows the case of the rotational speed which is 5400 rpm and the case of a single drive not including operating systems.
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