stripe hard dives in xp pro

[Guest]

Hi, I have built my new pc and installed windows xp pro..
Also i have installed 2x 200 gig HDD and would like to know if i could
stripe them or raid them through windows xp pro with out useing a raid
card...both hard drives are sata...

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Click Help & Support, search on Dynamic Drives.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

No.

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Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
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| Hi, I have built my new pc and installed windows xp pro..
| Also i have installed 2x 200 gig HDD and would like to know if i could
| stripe them or raid them through windows xp pro with out useing a raid
| card...both hard drives are sata...

 

[Kerry Brown]

No.

XP can create and use striped (RAID 0) volumes.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../xp/all/proddocs/en-us/dm_striped_volume.mspx

Although it is possible I personally wouldn't recommend it. If one drive
goes bad you lose the data on both drives. The performance increase is
negligible with software RAID.

Kerry