On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:37 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Is the Microsoft "software RAID", to mirror the disks in a quasi RAID1 > better than nothing, the equivalent of nothing, or worse than nothing?
Microsoft's software RAID is better than nothing, if those are the only two alternatives. But I believe there are other alternatives. As others have said, I think buying a decent, entry-level RAID card is a wise investment. Microsoft's RAID is slow and touchy, but works. Bill Songstad covers most of it. Make sure your BOOT.INI has entries for both physical disks. Keep a boot floppy around to start the system if the primary physical disk fails in a way that prevents the system from booting from the other disk. Preserve disk order at all times. Don't move or change storage configuration. Flailing about at random will hurt you. I might have used software RAID for a sandbox/test machine that I don't depend and am likely to end up rebuilding anyway. But these days, I'm more likely to use VMs for that scenario anyway. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
