+1 Windows RAID is the equivalent of nothing, imho.
From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Once more - software RAID If it were me, I'd go buy a RAID card and stick it in there and build the machine from scratch. [cid:[email protected]][cid:[email protected]] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 11:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Once more - software RAID Greetings! I pulled a PE-850 out of storage to re-build. It will be running Windows 2003 SP2. Its sticker said two SATA drives... It turns out it lacks a PERC (Dell RAID controller). Given that each disk has more than adequate space for both a system partition and the data partition (for its intended use), what is the consensus... Is the Microsoft "software RAID", to mirror the disks in a quasi RAID1, better than nothing, the equivalent of nothing, or worse than nothing? Thanks! -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA(r) 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 [email protected] P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org<http://www.aspca.org/> The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(r) (ASPCA(r)) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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