USB External HD Mirroring??

[Guest]

Have a Dell PowerEdge 2800 and a new 300GB External USB Hard Drive. If I buy
another and plug it in to the server, can I setup the pair for RAID Mirroring
? Have Windows 2000 Server SP4

Not sure if can be done. Anyone know?

Thanks

 

[Bob I]

Software RAID requires Dynamic disks. Windows does not support Dynamic
disks on removable media. Removable media is USB, Firewire etc. So the
short answer is no.

 

[woodyB]

cannot create dynamic disk on firewire in win2k but it can be done in x
(following easily searched procedures) place pci firewire card in xp bo
find the registry switch to enable dynamic disks in win xp and do i
refer "Tomshardware RAID and FIREWIRE keyword search. once you have
disks with dynamic [partitions each there is an option, option1: mov
the disks and firewire card to an win2k server or option2: hack th
registry in xp pro to enable striping with parity. to setup mirrorin
delete one disks partition (the disk will remain a dynamic volume (yo
knew that) then the mirror function will then be available on th
other disk, use the oxford 911plus chipset (best) to avoid blue scree
on accessing disk manager. always shutdown gracefully. rebuilds are
pain. BUSY TESTING. NO GUARANTEES. ALL SEEMS OK.
please post follow up


-
woody

 

[steve_nsi]

Take the drives you want to use out of the USB enclosures and install
them into a winxp PC with IDE connections. Pull up disk mangler and
change them to dynamic disks. Shutdown, pull the drives and reinstall
them in the USB encloseures then hook them back to your server via USB
connections. Once back on there, pull up disk mangler from the server
and choose to import the disks. They will now be in dynamic mode and
you can create RAID setups as you see fit.

This worked for me no problem w/ 2x320GB USB drives in a RAID0.

Good luck,
Steve