Hi, i want To setup a raid on My asrock motherboard with My 3 2TB seagate barracudas. My OS is installed on a 240 GB Kingston SSD. My os is whs 2011. But when i want To setup An array in the raid configuration menu It Said that My drive are already used in an array. Then when I click on delete array in the same menu it sais error. In that menu behind my drives details it said Non-Raid.
Please can somebody help me I tried everything.
@ overlord512:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum!
Please explain, what you want to do with your WHS 2011 (it is not a "normal" Operating System, which is able to manage various partitions and different RAID systems).
To which SATA port is your Kingston SSD connected and which SATA mode is running?
Regards
Fernando
The SSD is connected to port 7. And I want to use this as a server for backing up my home computer’s. And its on the raid rom lagacy mode. And it effects only port 1 to 6. The details in my bios say that my 3 hdds are in raid mode and my SSD in normal data mode.
I mean the SSD is in normal SATA mode (srry typing fault). And I want to do raid 5.
What do you mean with "normal SATA mode" (IDE or AHCI)?
Do you want to create a RAID5 array using the AMD RAID Controller of your mainboard?
What do you mean with "normal SATA mode" (IDE or AHCI)?
Do you want to create a RAID5 array using the AMD RAID Controller of your mainboard?
I don’t know what the option on the SSD is. Becaus my controller is in the raid mode. But in the boot menu it said like so
RAID: "HDD1 ID"
RAID: "HDD2 ID"
RAID: "HDD3 ID"
SATA: KINGSTON SSD
And the booting from the SSD already works properly.
Oh yeah, and I want to do raid 5 from the main board yes.
This guy did it on whs2011 http://homeservershow.com/adding-raid-to-whs-2011.html
But he did it with a dedicated RAID controller. Would that fix the problem?
This will only work, if your BIOS allows to do the SATA settings of your ports differently.
If your system drive (the SSD) and the HDDs, which you want to be members of a RAID5 array, are connected to the same AMD SATA Controller, you will have to set the AMD SATA Controller to "RAID" and probably to reinstall the OS in RAID mode.
After having done that, you will be able to create a RAID5 array with your HDDs as members.
Thanks alot! I didn’t know that. I go try that.