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Does anyone know how to stripe/mirror (RAID) by software using W2K?

Why would you want to do that? Mirroring and Striping individually would need two harddrives, combined would need four. So i'm thinking you're not going for the software route just because of cost limitations.

If so, then you're better off buying a RAID controller (got it $20 shipped from compgeeks) and going that path. Not only is it faster it also saves you the hassle of setting it up.

Just my 2c. 🙂
 
First, you cannot boot off a software raided drives. So you would need at least three drives to make this work. You have to install your OS to drive #1. After boot into your win2k, go to start, setting, control panel,Administrative Tools, computer management, storeage, disk management, make drive #2, #3 dynamic drive, and follow the wizard to set up the raid. After that your drive #2, #3 will be raided.
 
Are you sure on that seewhy? I would think it's pretty pointless for w2k to support software striping/mirroring if it isn't able to boot off the dirve.
 
Seewhy is correct you cannot boot of striped hard drives, but you can boot off mirrored drives. Actually kind, basically win2k is still booting off the Main drive in which you installed win2k on.

Also one other point is software mirroring/stripping inceases cpu utilization because now the OS has to handle the process of stripping the data. Hardware raid will not have an increased cpu utlization.

 
One other thing is I really dont see the benifit of using the software stripping in win2k unless you're running a pure file server, and can't afford a hardware raid controller.

 
Well, since you are running SOFTWARE raid, your PC need to get to the OS and know about your HDD configuration before they can boot. Since mirroring is just copying one drive to the other, the HDD configuration is the same and so you can still boot off it. But for stripping, your HDD's are stripped into one big HDD, and if you cannot access the OS to let your PC know that, your PC will think your HDD is all messed up. That's the simple explaination of why you need your OS in a unaffected drive so that your PC can talk to the OS before recognizing the raid configuration.

As for CPU utilization, actually I think Tomshardware did a benchmark on that, and software raid actually have pretty much the same utilization as the IDE raids. So if you say software raid is a waste of time, IDE raid is pretty much a waste of time too. (A lot of people are thinking that way, but that's another big debate) As for my self, I had my OS in my SCSI drive, and strip my two IDE drives via software raid, and give myself free performance gain. But right now, I am not doing that anymore, since I need to dual boot win98 and win98 couldn't recognize my stripped partition. Darn!!

 
Warning about converting from basic to dynamic disk!

Once I did this I could not burn to a CD from the hard drive.

I ahve to wipe everything and start again....
 
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