RAID0 Problem

[mystikmedia]

I have 4x Mtron drives in RAID0. Since the SSDs are suppose to be so reliable, I figured there would be no problems there. I was doing basic work yesterday when everything locked up. A couple of minutes later, a BSoD occurred, and the Areca 1231 ML card started beeping. I looked in the event long, and it says IDE Channel 2 Reading Errors, and then RaidSet Degraded, followed by Volume Failed. Of course, Windows won't boot. So, now I am panicking. Of course, this had to happen when my online backup has been down for the past week (they were working to fix it). Is there any way to get the RAID back in normal state at leqast long enough for me to copy my files? If I can do that, I would get a replacement drive, and then redo...or probably redo immediately with only three and then expand when I get the replacement drive. Thanks if anyone can help.

[orbist]

As you know, RAID0 provides no protection, just striping for performance. Sounds like a catastrophics failure on one chip within one drive. Depending on the protection MTRON provide (which sounds like none) you have probably lost everything.

RAID-0 on a flash drive doesn't really make sense. Each drive has enough performance. Therfore the only real RAID modes to use are 1 or 5. At least with 5 you could have survived the failure, and keeps the capacity up.

RAID-1 is the best, but loses 50% as I'm sure you know.

Afraid you eed to re-install and start again.

Lesson learnt? NEVER used RAID-0

[mystikmedia]

Thanks for the feedback. I am back up now after doing just what you mentioned. Thanks to backup, I didn't loose much, but I did loose a few things that will have to be redone. :/ Hope this thread will help others that might be thinking about doing the same.