Re: RAID 0

Thank you for your reply
What would be the best way of resetting the array?
Would it not be possible to just add another hard drive away from the RAID
Array and SBS backing up to it? (not entirely sure if that is possible)
Can one just change the Raid Array/Controller through 'Array Configuration
Utility'?
And what about the Data already on (operating sys etc.) would like to avoid
reinstalling?
Sorry a little bit rusty on this!
Thank you again for your help.


"Leythos" <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <#nxACrDnGHA.724@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jdiggle@xxxxxxxxxx
says...
Hi
Just received new SBS 2003 with RAID 0 Array over four disks. I think
that
this was a supplier error as was hoping for two sets of two drives each
striped, with the operating system on one pair, as well as file, and
backup
& other files to be put on the other pair of disks.
(SBS preinstalled) Having switched it on and gone through the SBS Setup,
I
have discovered in the Disk Management console I have only one Logical
Hard
Disk (0) - with a 12Gb C drive and 285+GB D-drive...
I can only assume that it is striping over all four disks - am I correct
in
thinking that if one of the disks goes down then little data will be
redeemable? If so then surely there no point in doing a system backup,
since
if there is a single hard drive corruption then It will all go down.
Can one add a normal basic disk for systems backup purposes? (there will
be
offsite backup for data)

Than you in advance for any advice

RAID-0 - stripe without PARITY across all disks - any disk fault and ALL
data is lost.

If you are going to do this, make life simple, reset the array with 4 x
Disk as RAID-5, so that you can have some redundancy, and then make it
one BIG partition. Yea, it's not a best practice, but it will save you a
lot of time moving things/profiles to the second partition and it will
keep you from running out of space on the small C partition if you set
it to 12GB.

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