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RAID 0 on Win2k system partition

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lalani2

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Is it possible to use software RAID 0 for a single partition system in Windows 2000? I have two drives of the same size and I want to increase my I/O performance. Only problem is that everything I have read so far indicates that you can't have a RAID 0 configuration on the system/boot partition. I would really love to have a completely transparent striping configuration which shows only one drive/partition under Win2K. Is there a workaround to accomplish this?

 
Why won't you believe what you read?

It's correct, you cannot have a software RAID 0 array for your boot/system partition. This is a MS spec, but you are free to try to circumvent these features.
Never put critical data on a RAID 0. If you have problems or accidently break the stripe you will not be able to recover data without expensive recovery software.
My recommendation: only use RAID 0 for gaming or temporary higher bandwidth data storage, like for video editing and encoding.

BTW, RAID 0 will not prevent thrashing even though their is less movement of coordinated HD's. So when your array needs to perform VM caching, while reading a program, it can only do one at a time. If you use both drives independently and use one for VM caching, it can write/retrieve while the other drive is writing or reading. This usually leads to greater system stability.

 
Might be a dumb question....but is this hardware raid?? Could I use that to have a boot partition to be raid 0?

Either way, has anyone used this card before?

Corm
 
TheCorm

The second line at the URL you specify says, "System Boot up from standard and RAID Volume supported"

Yes, all add-in RAID cards are hardware RAID while standard EIDE/IDE/ATA controllers can function for software RAID (0 or 1 or 5).
 
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