[windows2000] Re: Slightly OT: Software RAID with win2k/xp pro
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:12:38 +0200
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:12:47 +0100, Angus Macdonald wrote:
>Volume sets (I think they're called spanned sets on XP) work on XP - I set
>one up this morning with 3, 250GB drives.
Thx.
Nice size BTW. Can I have one too? ;-)
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: 07 September 2004 14:02
>To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [windows2000] Re: Slightly OT: Software RAID with win2k/xp pro
>
>
>On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:55:25 +0100, Angus Macdonald wrote:
>
>>If it's a stripe set I'm fairly sure you'll get 4 * the smallest drive.
>
>I've had some off-list replies which more or less are all
>different... Me myself, I can't ever get those raid-configs
>right...
>
>>For
>>maximum space, although without the performance gain of striping, you could
>>make a volume set which just adds the capacities together. Data is written
>>to drive 1 until it becomes full, then drive 2 etc. Performance isn't as
>>good as striping but you can dynamically extend the set with extra drives
>>whenever you like.
>
>Does win2k pro and xp pro do this?
>
>I recall volume sets, but only on windows server OSes. Correct?
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>Sent: 07 September 2004 11:59
>>To: Windows2000 Mailing List
>>Subject: [windows2000] Slightly OT: Software RAID with win2k/xp pro
>>
>>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm fiddling with a raid test over here, with some really ancient
>>hardware.
>>
>>Basics:
>>* 4x harddrives; 428M, 421M, 540M and 540M respectively.
>>* Win2k pro sp4
>>
>>
>>Question:
>>If I make them all dynamic disks, and build a simple stripe set
>>(non-redundant = RAID 0?), will all the space be accumulated to a
>>single big array (428M + 421M + 540M +540M = 1929M), or will the
>>smallest drive decide the final size (4 x 421=1684M)?
>>
>>Not that the difference is that big (about 300M)... But I was
>>thinking for later, uhhh..., experiments, where way bigger drives
>>will be used.
BW,
Sorin
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