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| 64938 | 2002-07-24 10:53:00 | Does anyone know if this can be done under Windows XP Pro, I have read loads of information and no one seems to mention weather or not you can under xp, MS says the following.... Mirrored volumes are available on all computers running Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. Mirrored volumes are not available on computers running Windows 2000 Professional, XOX, XOX, or XOX 64-Bit Edition. However, you can use a computer running Windows 2000 Professional or XOX to create mirrored volumes on a remote computer running Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, or Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. Any ideas or suggestions as I need to resolve this problem quite quickly... Thanks Guys |
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| 64939 | 2002-07-29 12:18:00 | NO! Windows XP doesn't support dynamic disks which is the feature set that enables this. Anyhow software raid is a pig. better off shelling out for a hardware raid card. Some cheap IDE raid cards are available now and in the coming months you'll be able to get Serial ATA Raid cards. Cheers, Ecko |
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| 64940 | 2002-07-29 12:24:00 | XP does support dynamic disks. | BIFF (1) | ||
| 64941 | 2002-07-29 12:27:00 | Windows XP Home Edition does not support dynamic disks. Pro does | godfather (25) | ||
| 64942 | 2002-07-29 21:02:00 | The following is extracted from the help section on my winXP pro,Hope it helps. cheers Steve Dynamic disks and volumes. Dynamic disks provide features that basic disks do not, such as the ability to create volumes that span multiple disks (spanned and striped volumes), and the ability to create fault tolerant volumes (mirrored and RAID-5 volumes). All volumes on dynamic disks are known as dynamic volumes. There are five types of dynamic volumes: simple, spanned, striped, mirrored, and RAID-5. Mirrored and RAID-5 volumes are fault tolerant and are available only on computers running Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, or Windows XP. However, you can use a computer running Windows XP Professional to create mirrored and RAID-5 volumes on these operating systems. Regardless of whether the dynamic disk uses the master boot record (MBR) or GUID partition table (GPT) partition style, you can create up to 2,000 dynamic volumes per disk group, although the recommended number of dynamic volumes is 32 or less per disk. |
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| 64943 | 2002-07-30 01:14:00 | ok i'm not that good with XP but here goes.... win2k and i assume XP can do software raid useing onboard ide channels. however its limited to 2 disks (othwise you get a performance drop due to having 2 hardrives on same channel) and can't do raid5. you can get software raid cards (including onboard raid) which XP will run no problem.(no raid5) or you can get hardware raid. the hardware raid has its own little cpu which does the calculating for the raid and its own ram. these will do raid5 (minimum 3 disks needed) and are XP compatible. |
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