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Old September 29th, 2005, 01:10 PM   #1
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How Do I Set Up RAID?

I have a Dell Precision 670 Workstation that comes configured for RAID if I choose. I am running four (4) internal 250 gig 16 mb buffer 133 EIDE hard drives, one (1) 250 gig 16 MB buffer SATA 150 (besides my 40 gig SATA system drive).

How do I configure this for RAID? Just set it and forget it in the BIOS?
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Old September 29th, 2005, 04:41 PM   #2
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this might help:

http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20010906/index.html
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Old September 30th, 2005, 07:59 AM   #3
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Thanks!

Thank you for the link but it still has me scratching my head. I was hoping for somebody with a system close to mine who has the RAID controller already installed.
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Old September 30th, 2005, 09:01 AM   #4
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Hugh,
If the Dell is configured for RAID setup, there should be some Raid management software in there somewhere. My mobo came with it on the setup CD. It allows you to choose the drives and RAID type (0,1, etc.).
Maybe need to download it from Dell?
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Old September 30th, 2005, 12:48 PM   #5
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Or can I set it up via the BIOS? I want RAID 1 right? Not the redundant one?
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RAID 0 is the striped array for faster performance. RAID 1 is the redundent storage array for greater security.
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Old October 5th, 2005, 12:33 PM   #7
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Can I set up for RAID 0 after I've already captured clips or do I have to set it up before capturing clips? Also, how does that affect the way I set up my scratch disks in Premirere Pro 1.5?
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Old October 5th, 2005, 01:25 PM   #8
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Can I set up for RAID 0 after I've already captured clips or do I have to set it up before capturing clips?
Since RAID 0 stripes data across two or more drives, I don't think that you can set up such an array with existing data on the hard drives (well, you could, but I think you would lose that data).

As for scratch disks and Premiere, the RAID 0 array is seen by the OS as a single hard drive, so nothing special is required in that regards.
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Old October 15th, 2005, 01:59 PM   #9
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Since RAID 0 stripes data across two or more drives, I don't think that you can set up such an array with existing data on the hard drives (well, you could, but I think you would lose that data).
You are absolutely right. You will have to format the drives after the RAID setup.

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