Re: Stirping/ Mirroring

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From: Marin Marinov (mlmarinov_at_askme.ca)
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 10:35:29 -0400

In article <1337a01c4439a$83919fc0$a501280a@phx.gbl>,
anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> Hello,
>
> I have a windows Server 2003 enterprise and have
> configured the 3 HD's as basic volumes.They are not SCSI,
> all IDE and I was wondering about which way to go here
> Striping or Mirroring or maybe another sugestion? Is any
> type of Raid available to me in this situation? Looking to
> get the best config out of a not so great situation until
> later.
>
> Thank you
> Joe
>
Hi Joe,
Since Win2K you cannot create anything except primary partitions and an
extended partition on a basic disk - you need to convert it to dynamic.
Then it all depends on what data you want to be fault-tollerant. You
would definetely need the OS to be and since the boot volume can only be
simple or mirrored volume you'd go for mirroring your C: drive. Striping
gives you only a performance benefit and *no fault-tollerance" - if one
of the disks in the striped volume fails you lose *all* data. You have 3
disks so you can implement RAID-5 (striping with parity). You'll be left
with unpartitioned space on one of the disks which can only become a
simple volume. You can move your page file (or one of them) to this
disk.

HTH 

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Cheers,
   Marin Marinov
   MCT, MCSE 2003/2000/NT4.0,
   MCSE:Security 2003/2000, MCP+I
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