RAID 0 under xp pro

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Somebody (who i really don't know) was just lecturing me that using
RAID 0 on XP Pro is a bad idea because it is not "industry standard"
and said something with the HAL in XP pro (that there isn't with 2003)
 
RAID 1 ? Also known as Mirroring. If 1 drive fails you have a clone. It
doesn't prevent you from hosing the data on both copies or other acts of
nature tho, so you still need backups.
 
I don't know if XP Pro supports RAID configurations, but it should
support dynamic disks at the very least...

If you can get it to work I would go with a RAID-5 configuration.

Why would the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) have anything to do with
RAID configuration?

General Information about RAID:
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html

Cheers,
-Randy
 
As far as the HAL thats exactly what i thought, when i looked at the
device manager it didn't even say there were two hard drives (just the
one 150, not two like there physically are). Without getting technical,
at what "level" does RAID-1 work?. When Windows goes to write to the
hard drive it "talks" to the controller which does its thing and "talks
back" with the data, wherever it might be from, which is not any of
Window's business. Is that correct?

thanks for the help,

Dan Irwin
 
Randella said:
I don't know if XP Pro supports RAID configurations, but it should
support dynamic disks at the very least...

If you can get it to work I would go with a RAID-5 configuration.

Why would the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) have anything to do with
RAID configuration?

General Information about RAID:
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html

Cheers,
-Randy
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XP PRO most definitely supports RAID configurations. The MOBO may or
may not as well as the HD configuration--you must have to identical
disks that support SATA.

Rick
 
As far as the HAL thats exactly what i thought, when i looked at the
device manager it didn't even say there were two hard drives (just the
one 150, not two like there physically are). Without getting technical,
at what "level" does RAID-1 work?. When Windows goes to write to the
hard drive it "talks" to the controller which does its thing and "talks
back" with the data, wherever it might be from, which is not any of
Window's business. Is that correct?

thanks for the help,

Dan Irwin
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Actually, handling and managing your information in whatever form is
Window's job... But you should have a disk controller that tells
Windows what you have on your drive and how it's configured. Then
Windows will tell it what it wants and the disk controller will try and
do it.

-Randy
 
Somebody (who i really don't know) was just lecturing me that using
RAID 0 on XP Pro is a bad idea because it is not "industry standard"
and said something with the HAL in XP pro (that there isn't with 2003)
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I presume that the lecturer was an employee of the IP/IT department of a
large company. There are lots of reasons pro and con for using a RAID 0,
but "not 'industry standard'" ain't one of them.

-- Jeff Barnett
 
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