Striped Volume

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if i format my 2 harddrives in "striped Volume" is it
save?


what will striped volume do?

Jay
 
A striped volume is faster but that does not include any kind of fault
tolerance. You can find some information on Windows 2000 and RAID here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/datacenter/help/software_RAID.htm

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Jay said:
if i format my 2 harddrives in "striped Volume" is it
save?


what will striped volume do?
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Striping is done for speed - it does not provide
any kind of data protection.

If one drive in a stripe set fails, all of the data
on the stripe set is lost. Hence, a two drive stripe
set has twice the failure rate of a single drive, a
three drive set has three times the failure rate, etc.

If data safety is your primary concern, you might
want to consider mirroring rather than striping.
 
Software striping is absolutely foolish and a certain receipe for disaster.
Avoid dynamic disks like the plague they are.
 
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