Hi
I have a Dell Poweredge 830 with 2 SATA 120GB HDD's, it has no hardware raid..
How do I mirror the drive with software ?
Is it in the BIOS Boot or in Windows ?
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Hi
I have a Dell Poweredge 830 with 2 SATA 120GB HDD's, it has no hardware raid..
How do I mirror the drive with software ?
Is it in the BIOS Boot or in Windows ?
Not sure exactly, but without any sort of hardware raid (integrated or PCI card) you'd have no option but to do it in Windows - becuase presumably you wouldn't have a seperate RAID BIOS.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grommit
Apologies if I'm totally wrong, but that's from my limited understanding of RAID.
Yeah, you'd do it in the Disk Management console, but beware the performance overhead: you're transferring RAID workload that should be handled by a RAID controller to the CPU.
Would agree with that. Software RAID should be avoided if possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by meastaugh1
So would you advise me to purchase a SATA Raid Card?
Is the stress on the CPU that bad with software RAID ?
Are you sure it has no RAID controller? The documentation suggests it has a CERC SATA 6 channel RAID cardQuote:
Originally Posted by Grommit
If it doesn't, I would suggest buying one, as stated above hardware RAID is the preferred choice!
Chris
Yes, and yes! :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Grommit
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