[windows2000] Re: Raid5 on WinXP
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:12:22 +0200
Actually I'm file sharing a handful of flavours of CentOS. I need Windows on
this particular machine.
FWIW, I started a checkdisk yesterday before I left for home, on the raid
array and windows found and corrected a few file errors. This morning all
seems good so far. Will see if the errors reappear soonish.
I can't spend all that money on a raid card as I just got approved to buy a
new portable for myself to use as a admin backup computer for my stationary,
after years of using obsolete hand-me-down laptops from the senior staff. You
only get so far with a P3... 8-/
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/Sorin
>-----Original Message-----
>From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-
>bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Berny Stapleton
>Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:43 PM
>To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [windows2000] Re: Raid5 on WinXP
>
>Use Azureus to download Linux and use Linux disk management. Aside from that,
>go out spend the money and buy an Adaptec or highpoint RAID controller and be
>done with it.
>
>
>2009/6/16 Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Situation: Have 5x 160GB hard drives currently in a raid0 configuration,
>and
> getting occasional errors with Azureus. Motherboard has six SATA-
>connectors
> and a built-in raid chip from Silicon Image able to handle max four
>disks.
> Mobo also has a Nvraid-chip, max four disks here too. But one can
>only use
> either the Silicon Image chip *or* the Nvraid, which limits me to a
> four-
>disk
> raid array at the max.
>
> Solution (or so I though): Deleting the raid0 array and let WinXP handle
>a
> software raid5 array with five disks.
>
> New situation. WinXP doesn't allow for a software raid5 array... WinXP
>is
> basically limited to raid0 and jbod only. Only Windows 2000 Server and
>up does
> raid5 out of the box. 8-/
>
> New solution: Checking for SATA raid controllers with more than four
> connectors.
>
> New situation: SATA raid controllers with more than four connectors
>are hugely
> expensive! Therefore this is a no-go for now.
>
> Guys, are there any other solutions I might look into that aren't too
>pricey?
> Like preferably within the ?100 range? And the week has just about
>started...
> 8-}
>
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> BW,
> Sorin
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