to do
raid on professional/workstation/?xp pro or home? I'd use a hardware raid
controller. I don't think "professional" supports software raid.
Look for one with lots of memory, good performance, hotswappability (is that a
word?), support for spare drives, no changes to the OS or disk manager, or
some combination of the previous.
just
make a repair disk set with the disk drivers on it, then test to make sure you
can boot off the floppyset.
I've
used raid controllers from HP, IBM and Adaptec (I think), and had good
success. They'll usually do raid1, 5 and 10. some have raid 15
mirrored striped (also known as plaid). The more expensive (read server)
cards come with more cache, and better managment software. The cheaper
ones (usually) have no hot swap, and more basic config and
management.
I've
mostly done mirror for the system and boot volume, then a stripe set for
data/apps volume. From what I understand it's better not to cache SQL
server as it does it's own caching and performance tuning, and for data and
transaction security in case of power failure.
Of
course that all depends on what apps you are running that need
raid.
Dan
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