Striped drive?

[Guest]

I set up a striped array within my bios and set up 3 partitions on the array,
and installed XP onto the first one.

Within computer management they have a blue band at the top, showing a
primary partition and a logical drive. Striped should be cadet blue. Does
primary partition and logical drive over-write that value?

Also the help file says "The system partition can never be part of a striped
volume, spanned volume, or RAID-5 volume."

So does that mean that XP can't use the striped array? Very confused

 

[Kerry Brown]

I set up a striped array within my bios and set up 3 partitions on the
array,
and installed XP onto the first one.

Within computer management they have a blue band at the top, showing a
primary partition and a logical drive. Striped should be cadet blue. Does
primary partition and logical drive over-write that value?

Also the help file says "The system partition can never be part of a
striped
volume, spanned volume, or RAID-5 volume."

So does that mean that XP can't use the striped array? Very confused

You are using hardware RAID. The help file is talking about software RAID.
Be aware of that RAID 0 is not fault tolerant. If one of the drives fail you
will lose all the data on all the drives in the array.

Kerry

 

[Guest]

Well ya learn something new every day!!

Yup I have 2 drives striped and 2 drives mirrored so am okay for data
preservation as striped array only has OS on it.

Thanks for the help!

 

[DL]

I had a hw mirror array, one disk failed, two months of data was missing on
the remaining working disk.
There had been no err msgs, logs showed nothing, array utility showed no
probs.
Backup!!!!!!!

 

[Kerry Brown]

I had a hw mirror array, one disk failed, two months of data was missing on
the remaining working disk.
There had been no err msgs, logs showed nothing, array utility showed no
probs.
Backup!!!!!!!

Agreed. Fault tolerance doesn't mean you don't have to do backups. RAID is
generally used in servers so the server stays running even if a drive fails.
With hot swapping the users will only see a slow down until the drive is
replaced. On a workstation some forms of RAID can increase read/write speed
marginally but aren't much use otherwise. With the speed of modern drives
and systems you may be better off moving an extra drive to a USB enclosure
and using it for backups.

Kerry