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The
rule in technology is that either MONEY will be spent, or both TIME and
MONEY.
If
there is no money in the budget for hardware RAID controllers, you will soon
find it necessary to find money for Data Recovery Services.
- ASB
I have used softrware raid in hundreds of NT
servers for years w/o problems, it is there to use. if for example, there is
no money in the buget for hardware raid controllers, the reality is money is
an issue.
My $.02..........
RE Young MCSE
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 10:50
AM
Subject: RE: Hard drive
configuration
That's too funny. I do at least know Hardware
RAID is better than Software RAID. And if NT will allow me to duplex,
as it was suggested by someone else, then that's probably what I'll
do.
I second this, only ever use Hardware RAID, which RAID config
depends on what you are doing.
When interviewing folks for an open position at my last employer we
had someone say that they thought that software RAID was "slick", that was
the last thing he said that I heard.
Kevin
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Thanks for the info. I will see if I can
do that.
volume sets are notoriously bad - they have a way of
crashing at bad times - I would personally do a raid array witha good
hardware (Adaptec) raid controller.
Jim Zangara, MCSE+I
Special Projects Engineer
Premiere Radio
Networks
A Division of Clear Channel Communications
15260 Ventura Blvd Suite 500
Sherman Oaks, CA
91403
Direct: (818) 461-8620
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In my house
there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I
would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from
a woman in Germany. She said, "Cut it out." -- Steven Wright
Cool. So, I could create 3 of them as
one volume so I don't have to give each drive a drive letter and
then mirror that volume to the other three
drives?
Duplexing to NT is the same as mirroring. Windows
does not care if they are on one controller (mirroring) or on two
controllers (duplexing)
Eric Wittenberg, MCSE CNA ASE
Technical Systems Analyst
3D
Computer Services Ltd.
Edmonton, Alberta
(780)484 9788 Fax (780) 484 9811
e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URL www.3dcomp.com
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29,
2001 4:58 PM
To:
NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Hard
drive configuration
I currently have a NetWare server with 6 Seagate
ST39175LW drives on 2
Adaptec controllers
in a duplexed configuration. We are going to rebuild
the server as NT 4.0. I don't think NT can
mirror the drives in a duplexed
configuration like the one we currently have. Am I
wrong. If not, what
would be the
best configuration for the drives. I was thinking of adding
a
single drive on the build-in controller
for the OS and using the other 6 for
data
storage. I'm just not sure how I should configure the other
drives.
Thanks, Michelle
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