Avoid on-board RAID solutions as they're all junk. There are varying differences in RAID solutions. Your best best for doing real RAID is to get an actual card.
I highly discourage doing software RAID especially on Windows as performance won't be too bad in comparison to hardware RAID, but for if you really want any level of protection from failure don't think software can supplant hardware RAID. Yes they cost money. Yes, they can be a complicated. But if you want RAID to work for you, you have to invest in the hardware.
You can explore the software raid features by right clicking on your "My Computer" icon, choosing "Manage", and then click the "Disk Management" entry in the tree on the left side of the window that opens.
Look for any disks listed as "dynamic" odds are your system volume is currently "basic" and right click on them to get a menu of tasks you can perform. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Do most of us use them. This guide will only show you how to setup raid 1 mirror drives. A RAID 1 setup protects data from a drive failure by simultaneously writing data to two hard drives a master drive and a backup or mirror drive. Since the second drive carries an exact copy of the first, it provides no usable storage capacity.
RAID 1 offers no gain in drive performance. I have w upload ork with different Raids. I only work with them in server with different company I go work for. I be using Window XP on this guide. NOTE: Some motherboard has a bulit in raid. If you have the option Raid Mode. Than you don't have to spent money on a raid card. Windows installation won't install the drivers from an optical drive.
You need to purchase one that support Raid 1. Make sure you have at least one pci slot or if you have pci-e slot you can use it. Make sure what you buying. Make sure you have two sata cable. When purchase raid controller it come with a floppy disk or cd. If it came with cd. You must copy the files from the cd to the root of the floppy disk. Install the raid controller into the pci slot or pci-e slot. Connect the sata cable ends to the two sata port of the raid controller.
The other ends go to the two hard drives you going to install. Just in several places. Now I have exactly what Shorty said. I just boot to it. Image my RAIDs to it. Take it offline and boot back to my RAIDs. Can recover whole system now in 20 minutes. I should have done this months ago, just too damn lazy. Missileman wrote:. Virtues of Evil wrote:.
Only with a hardware controller can you stripe the volume that the OS will reside on. If you want to add a RAID after the OS is installed, you need two seperate blank volumes with no partitions installed. Can you describe your drive setup, Mike? You weren't out of line even remotely by asking a valid question.
If people didn't ask, how would anybody learn? Spinner Birmingham, UK. Here's the post for peoples reference: Spinner wrote:. Software RAID, as it is dubbed, works for the most part in the same way as a typical hardware based RAID setup, with the chip on a motherboard or PCI card simply supplemented by a piece of software which can perform the same functions.
It's essentially the chicken and the egg scenario. Make note though that I said partition, not drive. As long as your OS is on a separate partition, another partition on that very same hard drive can be used to help make up a striped array RAID For RAID-1 however, you will require 3 hard drives in total. This is because Windows will not let you perform any volume operations on a boot disk or a swap disk.
You must be logged on as an administrator or be a member of the administrators group in order setup software RAID under Windows. Unlike in a hardware RAID environment, there is no need for matched drives. It does however require the hex editing of three system files to do so. I found this information on StorageReview. It can be found by looking at a history of the thead though.
I've included a link to the history here. Also, it is possible to run different levels of Raid on different partitions on a set of drives. The Raid 5 array gives a total of about GB of storage. It may be possible to Raid 5 four or more disks, though I haven't tried it. It is essential to use a UPS on a Software Raided machine - the slightest power glitch will cause both Raids to rebuild.
This hasn't been a problem in itself so far , but the Raid 5 takes about three hours to rebuild on this 1GHz Nehemiah processor. Bradley First off, welcome to short-media.
We always welcome people with expertise such as you seem to have. Second, would you mind perhaps elaborating on the method used to do the modification? That would make a fantastic guide, and we'll publish it if the information is accurate. Welcome and what a way to introduce yourself It will indicate that your disk drives are Dynamic.
Right-click on Disk 0 or Disk 1 and select New Volume…. The New Volume Wizard will appear. Click Next. A window will appear prompting you to Select the volume you want to create.
Select Striped as shown in the screen capture and click Next. Add Disks 0 and Disk 1 to the Selected list. Choose the size of each disk you wish to use for the new striped disk Click Next. Choose the drive letter to assign to the drive and click Next. Click Finish on the next window.
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