> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Luke S. Crawford > > 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?
Windows has supported software raid for about as long as I remember (at least servers) and it works, but it's got some drawbacks. They're not quite using the exact same disk format or something, so you couldn't, if you wanted to, simply pull one of the disks and attach to another system and expect to read its contents. Or something like that. Likewise, ghost-like imaging utilities often are incompatible. Most motherboards nowadays support mirroring. All the dell laptops I've bought in the last 2 years support raid mirroring, and half of them don't even have two hard drive bays. > Finally, what are some good (but not too expensive) hardware raid > cards for windows use? (Mirroring only is fine.) It's not impossible to go wrong. But I think if you're just paying a little attention, you can hardly go wrong. _______________________________________________ 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/
