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Raid five for free with any Hard Drive

by Dango517 Sep 9, 2007 5:39PM PDT

http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/11/19/using_windowsxp_to_make_raid_5_happen/

This article states that you can configure XP to run any drive as a raid 5. What do you think? Anyone try this? The article "does" state that simply configuring XP will not give you the performance boost of a store bought Raid drive but the performance improvement does look impressive and the price is certainly right. The configurations changes (eg. dynamic disk, mirrored, stripped) do apply, however. Wonder if it works for Vista?

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No to Vista.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 10, 2007 12:05AM PDT

But it does work. The problem is that people still don't maintain a backup and many will not do this since you need 4 drives.

Bob

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No way it's as readily transferable to another system as

by VAPCMD Sep 10, 2007 7:56AM PDT

Tom's folks indicate. They get folks all hyped up for this 'performance cr*p' but never explain the applicability or additional complexity that comes with it.

They ran it in the test systems but they have a lot of ready resources and expertise to make it work whereas the average user doesn't. RAID is wondeful when it's working but when not ... it tests the patience and knowledge of the best.

VAPCMD

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