Luke, My preference is to use hardware RAID cards as the performance is generally better. However, setting up RAID 1 in Windows Server 2008 (and 2003) is pretty straight forward. A good overview can be found here<http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Creating_and_Managing_Windows_Server_2008_Mirrored_%28RAID_1%29_Volumes> .
I prefer Dell servers which use their line of PERC <http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/pvaul/topics/en/us/raid_controller?c=us&l=en&cs=555>(PowerEdge RAID Controller) cards for RAID setups. I've had good luck with these. While the performance can't match that of a true SAN, for a stand alone server that you just want to setup drives to mirror one another, I've not had any problems. -Evan Pettrey On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Luke S. Crawford <[email protected]> wrote: > I've managed to get myself into a situation where I'll be building/managing > some windows workstations and servers. Now, one of my personal rules > is that if you want me to maintain it, all drives must be redundant. > On Linux, software raid works fairly well, I mean, I don't get the nice > red lights on my bad drives, but other than that, md is pretty great > for mirroring drives if you don't have a lot of money to spend. > > What about windows? Is there software RAID for windows that you can > boot off of that works well? or do I need to buy a hardware raid > card? Generally, the fakeraid stuff is not used under Linux; it's > worse than plain MD. Does the same rule apply under windows? > > Finally, what are some good (but not too expensive) hardware raid > cards for windows use? (Mirroring only is fine.) > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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