Deskstar 7K1000 Raid 0 PCI Controller Card

I have recently purchased 3 Deskstar 7K1000's 1tb hard drives. Has
anybody successfully set these up in a raid 0 using a pci SATA II
controller card? If so can you let me know what card you used. I
tried with a Promise FastTrak SX4300 and had problems.

Thanks

chewdon wrote:
> I have recently purchased 3 Deskstar 7K1000's 1tb hard drives. Has
> anybody successfully set these up in a raid 0 using a pci SATA II
> controller card? If so can you let me know what card you used. I
> tried with a Promise FastTrak SX4300 and had problems.
>
> Thanks
>

Try two disks. I bet two disks in RAID 0 work fine.
Three disks crosses 2TB (2**32 sectors). There are ways
around it, but you'd be better off asking someone in a
USENET PC storage group for help.

http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?t=68885

"Basic disks (with an MBR) are limited to 2TB."

The more complex you have to make your setup, the
harder it is to do data recovery later. (Because,
after all, who would back up an array that big ?
And what media would you use for backups ? It would
take a big box of floppies...) If you stick at the
2TB mark, maybe some $39.95 data recovery utility
will still work :-)

HTH,
Paul

On Aug 15, 11:59 pm, Paul <nos...@needed.com> wrote:
> chewdon wrote:
> > I have recently purchased 3 Deskstar 7K1000's 1tb hard drives. Has
> > anybody successfully set these up in a raid 0 using a pci SATA II
> > controller card? If so can you let me know what card you used. I
> > tried with a Promise FastTrak SX4300 and had problems.
>
> > Thanks
>
> Try two disks. I bet two disks in RAID 0 work fine.
> Three disks crosses 2TB (2**32 sectors). There are ways
> around it, but you'd be better off asking someone in a
> USENET PC storage group for help.
>
> http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?t=68885
>
> "Basic disks (with an MBR) are limited to 2TB."
>
> The more complex you have to make your setup, the
> harder it is to do data recovery later. (Because,
> after all, who would back up an array that big ?
> And what media would you use for backups ? It would
> take a big box of floppies...) If you stick at the
> 2TB mark, maybe some $39.95 data recovery utility
> will still work :-)
>
> HTH,
> Paul

I am having problems with the Promise FastTrak SX4300 without any raid
setup at all. I do not intend to use the drives for long term storage
so data recovery will not be a problem. I just want to have them
there for video editing. When I am done editing the video I will
transfer it to a large but much slower external drive. Thanks for the
suggestion I will try the other group.