All of the other folks who pointed out the weaknesses of software RAID are right on the money.
While there isn't anything wrong with not knowing, once you know the details I think that you'll see the flaws. At my last employer we discarded a job candidate because he knew a bit about RAID and still thought that software RAID was "Slick". I guess that it's viable for some folks, but in any kind of corporate environment downtime costs far more than the hardware. Hardware is the least expensive part of doing business, if your employer takes a few minutes to count the lost time/productivity of employees for a day or more while you restore/rebuild a server that lost one disk with Software RAID, they should see the merit of having a hardware RAID solution where the recovery from a lost disk is functionally zero impact on the users. Good luck, and happy learning.. ;') +__________________________________________+ "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and [Unix] BSD. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -Jeremy S. Anderson Kevin M. Flanagan C/S Planning Engineer III IT Systems Implementation Branch Banking & Trust 3261 Atlantic Ave Suite 116 Raleigh, NC 27604 919-716-6209 > -----Original Message----- > From: Avi Smith-Rapaport [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 3:16 PM > To: MSWinNT Discussions > Subject: software mirror > > > What goes into setting up a software mirror? > Will be purchasing a win2k server with 2 drives in it but do > not need to set up a raid or even hardware mirror. Any help > would be great. I have never done it so I have no clue if > it's just software, where I get it, or what. > > avi > > > ------ > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
