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 |  Software Operating Systems Windows XP & Before Windows XP & Before Discuss WOW! S/W RAID using only Win2k!!!!!!! in the Operating Systems forums; http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/01...906/index.html I'm sure that WinXP should be capable of this also....... |
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09-07-2001, 01:02 AM
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| WOW! S/W RAID using only Win2k!!!!!!! http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/01...906/index.html I'm sure that WinXP should be capable of this also....
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09-07-2001, 08:44 AM
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| hehe, not entirly new. I noticed this option when I was formating some old drives on my secondary system. to bad win2k dosnt seem to format any faster then dos :X |
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09-07-2001, 11:30 AM
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| I've considered moving to software RAID because my RAID card is only ATA-4 while my onboard IDE controllers are ATA-5. The difference between the simple IDE RAID cards and software RAID seems insignificant. Software might even be better because AFAIR it supports RAID 5! I'd still need my RAID card, though, because I have five harddisk drives  ...
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09-07-2001, 07:03 PM
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| good read there..gotta love toms  i had a friend at work who used it on his setup.... very kewl indeed i need to get another HD grrrr cheers cryogen
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09-07-2001, 09:47 PM
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09-07-2001, 11:25 PM
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| Yep! way to try out RAID. FYI this can also be done under NT if you want to play around with it @ don't have 2K. Be aware that performance probably won't be as good as firmware or hardware RAID (using IDE or SCSI cards): bus/proc utilization issues. Also, most mobos will only leave room for one additional IDE drive (CD-RW, DVD, etc.) if you run RAID 5, which requires 3 HDD's. Has interesting potential if you have a dual-proc mobo, more than 2 IDE channels, or other things along this line. You can run IDE RAID 5 using some cards, for info read IDE RAID Comparison @ Anandtech. I have some more goodies on IDE RAID coming if I can ever find time to finish writing the article... 
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09-08-2001, 04:34 AM
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| My experience (I've tested it) is that the cheap IDE RAID cards (all those that only support RAID 0/1/0+1 and JBOD - $100-150 price range) have performance comparable to that of software RAID. These cards have little more than the minimum amount of equipment required to run RAID. For instance they lack a decent onboard processor and cache. If you want performance beyond this entry level you need to look at the more expensive IDE RAID cards with onboard processor (and RAID 5 support) and cache (now, we're talking $250+ price range). These MIGHT be able to outperform software, but I've seen examples where they couldn't...
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