software raid0/striping on C: ?

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andrea catto'

My topic here is to discuss why microsoft does not implement the ability to
utilize at OS-Setup two disks as raid0/striping.

Yes I know, raid0 is not safe, or at least is just as safe a a 1-disk which
is the most popular solution for 99% of the users in the desktop computing.

So why after all not allowing this ???

I think users should be allowed doing this, assuming the risks on their own.

the fact of the matter is that nowadays everybody may afford a couple of
hard drives and if put on different IDE channels/perhaps controllers they
could 'fly' with raid0.

This limitation indeed exixts within the Redhat/Fedora implementations too
as well as others, but just because of 'lack of care' for those requirements
that many users would appreciate instead if given the chance.

Slackware Linux on the other hand SHOWS that it is possible to in fact have
two separate devices paired as raid0 mounted on / (equivalent to c:)

This raid0/striping on boot/root is way possible, I am a linux guru too,
although I love and prefer Microsoft, and since it's possible because I made
it and used it, I am wondering if this limitation is made perhaps because
the microsoft's disk structure/software could not handle this at all unlike
linux.
 
andrea

With the current MS software RAID0 technology, booting from a RAID0 is not
possible. I wouldn't currently expect MS to change this, now when many
motherboards comes with hardware RAID IDE controllers built in.

Best regards

Bjorn
 
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