[David Hasser]

Hey everyone,

Thanks for the help. I’ve been running Raid 6 and am quite happy so far. One quick question. My Raid tower has a power switch, and when I shut down my computer I turn it off after. Then the next day I turn on the tower, then my computer. But I was wondering if it would be harmful to turn on my tower after the computer is already on? I haven’t dared to attempt it, because one time I turned on the tower after the computer before I Raided the drives, I looked at the raid bios and saw that half the drives didn’t initialize properly. So now if I forget and turn on my computer first, I shut down the whole computer, start up the tower, then the computer. Should I just continue to do this or am I being paranoid?

Areca 1883x
Windows 7 Professional
Asus P9X79 Pro

Thanks
David

[David Hasser]

Thank you, I’ll try that. I don’t think I need help. I’ve never actually set up a raid before, but looking at the manual it seems pretty straight forward. I’ve been reading up on my card and how it improves the performance of raid 5 and 6. So I think I’ll try a Raid 6 with a 256k stripe size and give it a test. If it seems too slow for writes I’ll try 5, but I think it’ll be good after what I’ve read. I appreciate the help.

[David Hasser]

Thank you for the feedback. What are your thoughts on Raid 10? I keep reading that it performs better than Raid 5, and I don’t care about the lost capacity. So if it does perform better and it’s safer, then I might go that way.

Does Raid 6 have a noticeable drop in performance from Raid 5? That’s my main concern with 6.