Raid 5

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I know raid 5 is not supported by xp home or xp pro, can anyone tell me if it
is supported by windows me, windows nt server 4.0 or windows workstation 4.0?
 
:I know raid 5 is not supported by xp home or xp pro, can anyone tell me if
it
: is supported by windows me, windows nt server 4.0 or windows workstation
4.0?

It's not something you would implement on a Windows ME machine, unless you
were that way inclined genetically. Do you already have the hardware for it?
If not prepare to spend $$$$$ unless it's the comapany's budget. Never done
it on NT 4.0 but I know it does work, can say works for Win2K and 2K3
Server.

- Winux P
 
RAID 5 is normally used for servers.

Windows ME and Windows NT 4.0 workstation, this is "over-kill." Besides,
Windows 9x/ME/2000/NT 4.0 are no longer supported.

As previous stated, RAID 5 is solely based on the hardware. If the selected
RAID controller has RAID 5 support and the correct corresponding Windows XP
driver, it should work.
 
I know raid 5 is not supported by xp home or xp pro, can anyone tell me if it
is supported by windows me, windows nt server 4.0 or windows workstation 4.0?
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Soft RAID-5 is supported on Windows NT4 server, not on ANY workstation.

Hardware RAID (any type) where the controller card builds the array and
manages it, is supported on most OS's and even older ones.

You could, for example, purchase a Promise SX6000 PCI card and run 6xIDE
250GB drives in a RAID and the OS, even Windows 98, would not know it
was more than a single drive. Capacity may be another issue, but the
card only cares about the motherboard and drives. To the OS it appears
as a single standard drive.
 
From: "Yves Leclerc" <[email protected]>

| RAID 5 is normally used for servers.
|
| Windows ME and Windows NT 4.0 workstation, this is "over-kill." Besides,
| Windows 9x/ME/2000/NT 4.0 are no longer supported.
|
| As previous stated, RAID 5 is solely based on the hardware. If the selected
| RAID controller has RAID 5 support and the correct corresponding Windows XP
| driver, it should work.
|

Win2K is still supported.
 
From: "Leythos" <[email protected]>

|
| Soft RAID-5 is supported on Windows NT4 server, not on ANY workstation.
|
| Hardware RAID (any type) where the controller card builds the array and
| manages it, is supported on most OS's and even older ones.
|
| You could, for example, purchase a Promise SX6000 PCI card and run 6xIDE
| 250GB drives in a RAID and the OS, even Windows 98, would not know it
| was more than a single drive. Capacity may be another issue, but the
| card only cares about the motherboard and drives. To the OS it appears
| as a single standard drive.
|

This was the *best* answer !

In the case of a Server OS it is still far better to use a hardware RAID controller that
have the OS do RAID. For one the server doesn't have the overhead in RAID operations. The
second is that you can easily move the RAID Array from server to server or OS to OS. The
reason being the OS sees ONE virtual drive rather than an array of hard disks.

RAID can be implemented in IDE, SCSI and PATA/SATA using a hardware RAID controller.

My preference has been and remains SCSI. That may change as PATA/SATA technology matures.
 
Yves Leclerc said:
RAID 5 is normally used for servers.

Windows ME and Windows NT 4.0 workstation, this is "over-kill." Besides,
Windows 9x/ME/2000/NT 4.0 are no longer supported.

As previous stated, RAID 5 is solely based on the hardware. If the selected
RAID controller has RAID 5 support and the correct corresponding Windows XP
driver, it should work.
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Hi there,

I want to implement RAID on my new system.

Will Windows XP support a combination of Software and Hardware based RAID?

I will implement 2 x 200GB SATA drives for the OS in Software RAID (don't
know which one to select yet, RAID0 or RAID1). The hardware based RAID drives
will be 4 x 400GB SATA II drives in RAID5.

My motherboard is the ASUS P5WD2-E Premium.

Thank you for any feedback!
 
Hi there,

I want to implement RAID on my new system.

Will Windows XP Pro support a combination of Software and Hardware based
RAID?

I will implement 2 x 200GB SATA drives for the OS in Software RAID (don't
know which one to select yet, RAID0 or RAID1). The hardware based RAID
drives will be 4 x 400GB SATA II drives in RAID5.

My motherboard is the ASUS P5WD2-E Premium
(http://za.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=248&model=981&modelmenu=2)

Is it also true that one needs to edit the Dmconfig.dll, Dmboot.sys and
Dmadmin.exe so that RAID 5 works without problems in Windows XP Pro
(according to an article in PCworld)?

Thank you for any feedback!
 
Use one or the other but not both. (I'm not even sure that both can be
used at the same time). Hardware RAID offers better performance over
software RAID as it doesn't rely on the cpu for data transfers, less
usage of system resources. Windows XP Professional as shipped does not
support RAID-5, generally that is only available on server systems, so
to make it work on XP will require some sort of hack.

John
 
Am wondering if you get RAID5 set up on yoru xpp machine. I run xpp and got a
raid card and software and can not get it to run with or without the card.
AWith card BIOS does not see drvies and without it they are not lisitng in
the GUI but are in BIOA and both drives are running after boot. All I know
for sure is there is one hell of a lot of conflicting comment on the matter.

If you came up with the solution wodul aaericate if you post and email me
(e-mail address removed).

TKX, Stu
 
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