[windows2000] Re: Raid5 on WinXP
- From: Berny Stapleton <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:43:03 +0100
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-}
>
> --
> BW,
> Sorin
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