Mirror/RAID support of Firewire devices

[Alex Vilner]

Hello!

I am trying to find out if Windows XP would support an external
USB/Firewire drive enclosure -- not just as external storage, but also
would allow me to do RAID-1 (or RAID-0+1 or RAID-5)...

Any success stories? How would one go about configuring it?

Unfortunately, I have to resort to this option, since there is no room
in my computer to put in the internal RAID controller and to house
internal hard drives...

Thank you in advance!

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

No, external drives are designed for file storage only.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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"Alex Vilner" wrote:

| Hello!
|
| I am trying to find out if Windows XP would support an external
| USB/Firewire drive enclosure -- not just as external storage, but also
| would allow me to do RAID-1 (or RAID-0+1 or RAID-5)...
|
| Any success stories? How would one go about configuring it?
|
| Unfortunately, I have to resort to this option, since there is no room
| in my computer to put in the internal RAID controller and to house
| internal hard drives...
|
| Thank you in advance!

 

[Craash!]

However,

If you install the hard drive into the machine (sata or ide
controller), create the dynamic spanned or mirrored drive, remove the
drives and install them back into their enclosures and connect them
via firewire you can "import dynamic" disc via disk management and it
will work. The only downside to this is if you remove any one of the
drives, you have to reimport them via disk management as opposed to
windows automatically mounting them like a normal external removable
drive. You CAN move this array from machine to machine as long as
it's xp or Server 03 and you remeber to import the array.