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by Chris Faylor, Apr 21, 2009 6:30am PDT

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Has anybody ever heard of one half of a RAID-1 mirror setup going bad (e.g. writing bad sectors) and then the RAID controller actually replicating the corruption to the other (supposedly healthy) drive?

This apparently happened to my drives, but I never got any warnings or anything... everything was cool and then one morning the RAID just shit the bed. I'm using the onboard RAID controller from a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 mobo.

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  followup question: if you had this happen, would you continue using the same brand/model drive?
  
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  followup question: if you had this happen, would you continue using the same brand/model drive? : rgoer
  - You're using the onboard RAID controller, which have the tendency to be flaky when things actually do go ... : zerog83
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  Is that a Jmicron RAID chipset? I've always had problems with those. : Shadowdane
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    Yep. I disable them. The intel ICHxx is way better. Though FRAID through Bios hacks is no good if you wan... : bombay
    - Yah I'm using the Intel RAID on my Gigabyte EP35-DS3R and it works great!! : Shadowdane
    - Is the ICH10R ok? Or should I definitely buy an add-in RAID controller card? : rgoer
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  I would never use onboard RAID. Ever. RAID cards are easily replaceable. : electroly
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    And let this also be a lesson to you: RAID is not a backup. : electroly
    - For sure. And also, test restore on your backup solution. Nothing like finding billions of blank tapes. : bombay
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  I don't think anyone can legitimately say that using on-board RAID is a good thing. I've had terrible luc... : mystikal
  - R1SOFT is your friend. This cannot be stressed enough. : mystikal
- Raid 0 = no protection Onboard raid = ass Raid 1 using onboard raid = half ass (more like 90% ass... : GoodBoy
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  what's a good add-in controller card? : rgoer
  - anything from 3ware : electroly
  - Areca ARC-1220 is a good one. : GoodBoy