{"id":30,"date":"2008-06-26T14:03:48","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T21:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.byteheaven.com\/forum\/index.php?topic=91.msg149#msg149"},"modified":"2008-09-03T16:48:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T23:48:21","slug":"30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"nVidia nForce RAID &#8211; to be avoided?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I rereinstalled. This time I got impatient and installed NWN while Service Pack 2 was downloading. <strong>Don&#8217;t do this!<\/strong> Installing software during the service pack download confused the installer; this caused errors in the update of some components, and as far as I can tell there&#8217;s no way to back out the service pack and try again.<\/p>\n<p>However, the good news is that with a reinstall that does <em>not<\/em> use nForce RAID, the system is stable like it was before I went to RAID. The moral of the story seems to be &#8220;don&#8217;t use nForce RAID&#8221;. I am instead using the Windows XP Pro RAID (striped) with no problems. Benchmarks suggest that it should give similar performance, although I haven&#8217;t tested it yet.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sad to lose two or three days of free time that could be spent gaming or something. It&#8217;s not like I wouldn&#8217;t have wasted that time anyway, but I didn&#8217;t want to spend all this time installing. Anyway, <em>learn from my mistakes<\/em>, don&#8217;t use the nForce onboard RAID. If you ignore my advice and do it anyway, make backups, even if it&#8217;s a mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I rereinstalled. This time I got impatient and installed NWN while Service Pack 2 was downloading. Don&#8217;t do this! Installing software during the service pack download confused the installer; this caused errors in the update of some components, and as far as I can tell there&#8217;s no way to back out the service pack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[100,99,97,96,98],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-data-loss","tag-nforce","tag-nvidia","tag-nwn","tag-raid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}