[efx456]

Hello,

I have this mobo: Asus A8V Deluxe with onboard Promise FastTrack 378 RAID controller.

I have attached 2 different SATA drives to the Promise RAID controller:
1. Hitachi 1TB with 16MB cache,
2. Samsung 1TB with 32MB cache

I did this to reduce the probability of 2 disks failing together within a short period of time.

First question:
Is this ok? Could there be problems associated with doing this? Do they have to be exactly the same?

Second question:
If the promise raid controller dies, how do I get to my data? Can I just attach one of the hard disks to a normal non-raid sata port and mount it and get to my data?

Thanks in advance.

 

[oldjoe]

Ideally, both drives should be identical but different drives will work. A better and simpler solution is to use one drive for OS and whatever and use the other drive for backup.

 

[efx456]

Thanks a lot. That's all I needed to know.