SATA controller died......

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GTP_event / kevinr6287 (farming account)
...AGAIN!

yeah, my mobo crapped out again in the SATA controller department. Last time I RMA'd it, but that took forever. I need the PC back ASAP, since nearly all of my courses are hugely dependant on online work. I just ordered a new PCI controller from newegg, and I'm hoping it will get here by the weekend. I'm also hoping all of my data survived, as well as the HDDs themselves.

Has anyone else had this must trouble running a RAID configuration? Second critical failure in 4 or so months... I'm not gonna run RAID 0 anymore, thats for sure.

Also, is there way to have a reverse partition, where both of my 2 80GB HDDs are recognized as one 160GB partition?
 
what motherboard do you have?

As for the "reverse partition", set up a Raid 1 array. The data access will be twice as fast and you'll have the 80 gig drives showing as a single 160 :)
 
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what motherboard do you have?

As for the "reverse partition", set up a Raid 1 array. The data access will be twice as fast and you'll have the 80 gig drives showing as a single 160 :)
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And that RAID 1 you're speaking of is RAID 0, and that's what I had, and that's what I will be avoiding once I get this new SATA controller card. RAID 1 is data mirroring, where everything you write to one 80GB drive is also written to the second, so 2 80GB HDDs show up as 1 80GB, but if one fails, then then you don't lose and data.
 

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