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Originally Posted by SebC
Nope, definitely hardware RAID then. As long as I don't lose 2/3 disks simultaneously I should be fine. Still not sure if I'm bypassing the affected "firmware" or not, but guessing not. Doesn't look like the update is available now anyways though.
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The onboard raid on motherboards isn't really hardware raid, it's more software raid with a bit of hardware help.
If you've got RAID 5 with 3 drives then yeah if you lose one disk you are ok, but if you lose 2 you are hooped.. and if you lose one your performance will be severely degraded until you replace the drive and repair the array.
As an aside, any particular reason you're running RAID 5 on a desktop PC? The performance is going to be brutal since the motherboard controllers aren't real RAID controllers and don't do any heavy lifting of calculating the parity bits, it's all going to be pushed to the CPU. Plus motherboard RAID 5 throughput is usually horrible.
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Originally Posted by SebC
So a good update is out now? How would I go about updating the firmware in a hardware RAID?
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The update should be able to find the drives regardless of the RAID controller, but if not, you could either switch the controller into SATA mode and do the firmware updates so it can address the drives directly, or put the drives onto another controller or computer.
How does the BIOS update run, is it a windows app? Or a bootable CD or something?
