I am using RAID10 (stripe + mirror) on my HP workstation server. I use 4x250G high speed SATA drives. HP workstations have Intel RAID built in. RAID 10 has both speed and redundancy advantages. It will continue working if one drive goes bad. Obviously it makes sense to have a spare drive handy in case that happens. The main trick is to have a floppy drive to load the Intel RAID driver when you load WinXP.
You can also use Software RAID5 on XP: http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/11/19/using_windowsxp_to_make_raid_5_happen/page2.html For "backup" you can use SyncToy from Microsoft and keep the files sync'ed up on an external USB drive. -- mik63 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mik63's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9480 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34845 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
