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General Category => Alt-OS => Topic started by: MaxxRezz on October 29, 2002, 07:48:03 AM

Title: Raid
Post by: MaxxRezz on October 29, 2002, 07:48:03 AM

I herd somthing about software based raid can anyone bring me upto speed on this?

Title: Raid
Post by: watts3000 on October 29, 2002, 12:33:52 PM

http://www.zzyzx.com/products/whitepapers/...s_soft_raid.pdf (http://\"http://www.zzyzx.com/products/whitepapers/pdf/hard_vs_soft_raid.pdf\")

That is a starter on HW vs SW raid. What OS were you thinking bout trying this on?

Edit: Another primer on RAID: http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/m...type=Technology (http://\"http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/markeditorial.html?sess=no&cat=%2fTechnology%2fRAID&prodkey=talk_about_raid&type=Technology\")

Title: Raid
Post by: MaxxRezz on October 29, 2002, 01:29:22 PM

i was thinking about win 2k pro

i have a partishon though will it make any diff?

Title: Raid
Post by: MaxxRezz on October 29, 2002, 01:37:15 PM

I just been reading thoses links and think ill give it a miss as i cannot afford hardware raid and dont want any degrading of performance on the software option.

thanks anyway though.!

Title: Raid
Post by: Josetann on October 29, 2002, 01:39:16 PM

Software raid is generally as fast as cheap hardware raid (virtually any card $100 or less).  Reason being they rely on the cpu to do most of the work anyways.

Quick tip, don't spend a ton of money on a real hardware raid card if you're going raid0 or raid1 (the most common two types), as it is actually faster using the cpu than a dedicated controller on the card.  I remember seeing a review somewhere, and the software-raid cards (they're hardware, but rely on the cpu, like a winmodem) outperformed the hardware based ones everytime.

I haven't done software-raid on windows, but I believe you have to convert the drive into a dynamic disk, then it can do software raid.  Hopefully someone else can clarify this, as I really only have raid experience in linux.

Title: Raid
Post by: watts3000 on October 29, 2002, 06:45:33 PM

[quote name=\'Josetann\' date=\'Oct 29 2002, 01:39 PM\']I haven't done software-raid on windows, but I believe you have to convert the drive into a dynamic disk, then it can do software raid.  Hopefully someone else can clarify this, as I really only have raid experience in linux.[/quote]
                    That is basically the gist of software raid in win2k. Convert to dynamic disk and then there should be an option for redundancy.

Title: Raid
Post by: watts3000 on October 30, 2002, 04:23:43 PM

Excellent Raid explanation....

http://www.msi.com.tw/html/e_service/teche...raid/raid_2.htm (http://\"http://www.msi.com.tw/html/e_service/techexpress/tech_column/raid/raid_2.htm\")

Title: Raid
Post by: MaxxRezz on November 06, 2002, 07:09:11 AM

thanks for that guys!