Re: Installing RAID 1

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From: acon (ezacon_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:09:54 +0100

1- Install the sata raid driver.
2- Make partitions images to another disk. You can use Ghost 2003 in dos
mode.
3- Build your raid and restore images from backup disk to raid volume.

I understand you whant to use your actual system disk as a member of the
mirror set
I suggest you to buy 2 disks and use them in your mirror set. This way, if
something fails in the proccess, you can still mount your original system
disk.
For mirror volumes, it is beeter to use same model in both members.
Otherways, the resulting mirror set will perform as the slower member.

"attila" <gcsokai-nospam@yahoo.com> escribió en el mensaje
news:umCq4X%23zEHA.3336@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>I have the SBS running with one disk right now. I bought a RAID 1 SATA
>controller and a second SATA HD of the same capacity as the one SBS is
>running on. I would like to install the RAID controller and the second HD.
>Do I have to reinstall SBS or can can I just install the RAID card and the
>second HD and mirror it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Attila
>

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