I agree HW is not perfect either, but what would you rather do, hope for the best and prepare for the worst knowing that you already set yourself up for failure, or go with HW and still planning for the worst but being able to sleep at night knowing your chances of an issue are significantly less. A raid card is cheap, even for tight budgets...
If you are not doing backups, well that's poor planning and management if you ask me. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 7:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: software raid lost Hardware RAID has its issues too. If there's one rule of IT - it's never say never :-) When RAID goes wrong - we rely on backups :-) Cheers Ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2008 11:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: software raid lost Umm..It does not give you an option to import the disk? Do have an ERD? Did you do anything else other than shut down the server and insert the drive? Just for future consideration..Never use Software Raid. Yes I used the word "Never." You may try removing the 4th disk and see if it finds the unimported volume. From: René de Haas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 5:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: software raid lost Maybe diskpart. That should be able to create software RAIDs. Hth René ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
