External Ethernet HD and Mirroing

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Jason Gurtz said:
dg wrote
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Nonsense! It most certainly does, at least in XP Prof. Be aware that you
need to be using "Dynamic Disks" to do any sort of OS software based
RAID. Go to disk management, click help, help topics. Switch to the index
tab. Type "mir". Observe that "mirror sets, creating" is highlighted.
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Pity that leads via the internal link to Creating a mirror Volume to the
statement

a.. You can create mirrored volumes only on computers running Windows 2000
Server,
a.. Windows 2000 Advanced Server, or Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.
That said, I've found through the hard way that a hardware raid card is
best and easiest when it comes time to actually deal with a failed disk.
I would never ever recommend software mirroring on windows to
someone with less than an expert level of computer ability. Linux SW RAID
may be reliable but it's asinine to think that even a well versed windows user
could easily switch to using that without an enormous, time wasting effort.
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In spades when the OS doesnt even support it.
 
a.. You can create mirrored volumes only on computers running Windows 2000
Server,
a.. Windows 2000 Advanced Server, or Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.
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Or, from more recent help file:
"-You can mirror volumes only on computers running Windows 2000 Server,
Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, or
the Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems."
 
Or, from more recent help file:
"-You can mirror volumes only on computers running Windows 2000 Server,
Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, or
the Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems."
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Thanks for that, I assumed they'd have to update that soon to
include the Windows Server 2003 family. Mine is from XP Pro SP2.
 
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