Raid 1 Question

Lets say you have two hard drives that are set up with raid 1, does deleting one file from one drive would result in the deletion of the exact same file on the second drive?
Answer #1
Yes it would. Since the HDDs are mirrored it would be deleted from both HDD’s
Answer #2
Dave2001 answered this perfectly Both of the drives are identical (mirrored) and what ever you do on one it will do to the other
Answer #3
Awesome! Thank you guys.
Do either of you or any one know whether Windows 7 Software raid will allow me to pair up 3 different sets of raid 1? I’m trying to build a raid 1 server with Windows 7 software raid which I find to be more reliable than hardware raid should the hardware becomes defective.
Need to know before I go out and buy 6 hard drives.
Answer #4
The OS has nothing to do with it,It depends on the Motherboard or SATA Controller.
I suggest you ask on MSI’s official forum:
http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php
Answer #5
This is software raid, and not hardware raid, why would it depend on the motherboard? Also it’s not an MSI motherboard, I’ll need to build a new one that has 7-10 sata ports.
Answer #6
tzuchi replied: This is software raid, and not hardware raid, why would it depend on the motherboard?
It’s not as simple as you put it,It’s more of a combo of software & hardware and not software alone,And you define
the RAID Array from the BIOS and not from the OS itself,The SATA controller/s are integrated to the motherboard
and may or may not support the configuration your after.
Answer #7
If Windows 7 software raid will allow you to take a raid drive off and plug it into another Windows 7 pc with entirely different hardware specs, I don’t understand how it is dependent on the motherboard or bios. Granted if it was a hardware raided drive, you would need the same hardware from the same manufacturer in order for it to be read on a different machine.
The raid array in this case is definitely from the OS itself. From what I read, the raid will be read among other PCs as long as they have the same Windows 7 operating system (whether they have the same hardware or not). Although if a raid array created from Windows 7 software raid which is plugged into Windows XP parse will not be accessible.
Wish I had some cheap 80GB drives laying around so I can test this setup out before building my raid 1 server.
Time for the swap meet for some test drives. 10 drives for 1$ each? I hope so…
I’m just trying to build a raid server with the following:
Operating System:
30GB –> SSD Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Software Raid Array:
2TB –> 2TB Applications/Docs/Etc
2TB –> 2TB Movies
2TB –> 2TB Games
Motherboard: Intel Dual Core of some sort.
Ram: 4GB
Case: Fractal Design Define XL Titanium Grey [will look into it once everything is sorted out]
Fan: Noctua NH-D14 among others…
Answer #8
I see your point,Seems I got it confused with hardware raid at first,But I’d imagine that it’d still be the better
option (performance wise),And for the record,If the controller fails (which is rare) the data would still be 100% accessible
from another PC,Data loss can only occur with RAID0 failures,Not RAID1. But do keep in mind that backup and mirroring
are two (similar) but very different things,For the home user,Backup is more efficient,RAID1 is more ideal for server use (to reduce
downtime),Btw that’s the CPU you were talking about there and not the motherboard.