Software RAID (particularly RAID-1) can work OK - depending on your usage needs. But, your system will take a performance hit if its not hardware based.
Its better than nothing, but could make using it on a regular basis annoying, and a loss of productivity for all those accessing it. I would buy a card. -- ME2 On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:37 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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®* > 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® (ASPCA > ®) 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/> ~
