how to setup software raid in win2k?

[Vicken]

Anyone know any sites which show you how to setup software RAID 0 across two drives with Windows 2000 Professional? I read that you can't use the system and boot partition on the raid. So will I have to just partition one of the drives into two?

I am building a new video editing system using two 9GB IBM U2W 10000 RPM hard drives. One of them is 80MB/sec and the other is the newer 160MB/sec drive. The SCSI card is an Adaptec 19160 U160 card. Any problems with raiding these?

 

[Need4Speed]

u will need another drive then. u cant use the same physical drive to do raid...tht would defeat the purpose.

 

[Vicken]

If I get another hard drive, can I do software raid 5 instead?

 

[Vicken]

Actually nevermind, Win2k pro can't do raid 5. 🙁 I found out it would be cheaper for me to buy an 18.2GB 10,000 RPM SCSI instead of two 9.1GB 10,000 RPM SCSI drives, so I am probably better off using one 9GB 10,000 RPM SCSI drive which I already have for the OS, and an 18.2GB drive dedicated to the video editing. What do you think?

 

[Need4Speed]

should be fine...raid 0 is nothing great anyways, especially in software. The scsi drives should be good enough by themselves without having to go to raid 0.

 

[Need4Speed]

Also, if u are real serious about it, u should invest in a raid scsi card...

I have 3 scsi drives in my win2k box a 9gb 10k and 2 9gb 7200rpb drives. i have them set up in such a way that 1gb of each 7200 drive (the 10k is my system disk)is setup for raid 0 for the swap file. the remaining 8 gb of each drive is jsut standard storage. I really didnt see that much improvement in real world applications to dedicate both for software raid 0. By real world i mean things i use for work...CAD proggied and 3dsmax, etc.

...in the end, only you can decide by trying 🙂