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February 4th 07, 09:10 PM
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Raid 0 mirroring on a preinstalled Vista machine
Vista was already installed on the machine I bought which came with only
one 160 GB SATA drive. What if I later on want to add a second SATA HD? Can I then make it do a RAID 0 with the existing HD? Does it have to be exactly the same size? Same brand? Same model? 
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February 4th 07, 09:56 PM
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Raid 0 mirroring on a preinstalled Vista machine
"Anthony Marsh" wrote in message
. .. Vista was already installed on the machine I bought which came with only one 160 GB SATA drive. What if I later on want to add a second SATA HD? Can I then make it do a RAID 0 with the existing HD? Does it have to be exactly the same size? Same brand? Same model? Raid 0 is not mirroring. RAID 1 is mirroring. It is not likely you could add a disk and then create either array without also backing up and restoring your data afterwards. Some higher end controllers can build a RAID 1 array on the fly but most lower cost solutions can't. -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca
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February 5th 07, 10:35 PM
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Raid 0 mirroring on a preinstalled Vista machine
Anthony Marsh wrote:
Vista was already installed on the machine I bought which came with only one 160 GB SATA drive. What if I later on want to add a second SATA HD? Can I then make it do a RAID 0 with the existing HD? Does it have to be exactly the same size? Same brand? Same model? Raid 0 is striping, not mirroring. Exactly what do you want to accomplish? -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup
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February 6th 07, 12:49 AM
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Raid 0 mirroring on a preinstalled Vista machine
Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
Anthony Marsh wrote: Vista was already installed on the machine I bought which came with only one 160 GB SATA drive. What if I later on want to add a second SATA HD? Can I then make it do a RAID 0 with the existing HD? Does it have to be exactly the same size? Same brand? Same model? Raid 0 is striping, not mirroring. Exactly what do you want to accomplish? Redundancy so that every bit is saved to both drives so in case one drive fails, the other is intact. How about self healing from the good drive?
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February 6th 07, 10:04 AM
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Raid 0 mirroring on a preinstalled Vista machine
RAID 0 has nothing to do with redundancy, but with performance. Look at RAID
1, it might be what you want. A number of newer controllers support creating a RAID1 array from a single non-RAID disk. Same size, brand and model is recommended but not required. Check your the documentation for your RAID controller. "Anthony Marsh" wrote in message . .. Ken Blake, MVP wrote: Anthony Marsh wrote: Vista was already installed on the machine I bought which came with only one 160 GB SATA drive. What if I later on want to add a second SATA HD? Can I then make it do a RAID 0 with the existing HD? Does it have to be exactly the same size? Same brand? Same model? Raid 0 is striping, not mirroring. Exactly what do you want to accomplish? Redundancy so that every bit is saved to both drives so in case one drive fails, the other is intact. How about self healing from the good drive?
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