What versions of XP will handle mirroring ?
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Anyone know if it is just the server , or server and workstation that will allow you to mirror a drive ? Ain't nobody ever told you : There ain't no sanity clause .Groucho Marks
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Anyone know if it is just the server , or server and workstation that will allow you to mirror a drive ? Ain't nobody ever told you : There ain't no sanity clause .Groucho Marks
If you mean mirror a drive over 2 disks (fail safe) every NT based OS from NT4 and up can do that. (I'n don't know about XP Home edition, never used it, but professional can) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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If you mean mirror a drive over 2 disks (fail safe) every NT based OS from NT4 and up can do that. (I'n don't know about XP Home edition, never used it, but professional can) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
Anders Molin wrote: every NT based OS from NT4 and up can do that. Actually, 2000 Pro can't. It can use mirrored/striped/etc volumes, but can't create them. Gotta use 2K Server to create them. --Mike-- Just released - RightClick-Encrypt v1.3 - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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Anyone know if it is just the server , or server and workstation that will allow you to mirror a drive ? Ain't nobody ever told you : There ain't no sanity clause .Groucho Marks
I just use a motherboard with a RAID controller and don't lose performance. You can also use an addin RAID controller (PCI bus) unless you are trying to add it to a laptop obviously. Elaine (fluffy tigress emoticon) Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
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If you mean mirror a drive over 2 disks (fail safe) every NT based OS from NT4 and up can do that. (I'n don't know about XP Home edition, never used it, but professional can) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
Yep , 2 disks because I just got caught out without a backup and I do not want to be caught out again. Tape drives of any decent size are too expensive and take a while to copy the shear volume of data on modern hard discs. CD is too slow and too small , so that leaves hard disc , so I was going to mirror two 60GB drives and have one in a removeable shuttle . I was running win 2000 , but I am going to XP on the new discs , but I do not know if the desktop version of XP will create and manage mirrored drives . There will be a performance hit this way , but I will try it and see . If it is troo bad , I will get an IDE raid controller . Ain't nobody ever told you : There ain't no sanity clause .Groucho Marks
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Anders Molin wrote: every NT based OS from NT4 and up can do that. Actually, 2000 Pro can't. It can use mirrored/striped/etc volumes, but can't create them. Gotta use 2K Server to create them. --Mike-- Just released - RightClick-Encrypt v1.3 - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
It can ;-) On my old computer I had 2 disks striped, and I did it from Win2k Pro (it was the only OS on the pc). I have made, and used, stripeset's from NT4 Workstation, Win2k Pro, and Win XP Pro. - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Yep , 2 disks because I just got caught out without a backup and I do not want to be caught out again. Tape drives of any decent size are too expensive and take a while to copy the shear volume of data on modern hard discs. CD is too slow and too small , so that leaves hard disc , so I was going to mirror two 60GB drives and have one in a removeable shuttle . I was running win 2000 , but I am going to XP on the new discs , but I do not know if the desktop version of XP will create and manage mirrored drives . There will be a performance hit this way , but I will try it and see . If it is troo bad , I will get an IDE raid controller . Ain't nobody ever told you : There ain't no sanity clause .Groucho Marks
Andrew Torrance wrote: There will be a performance hit this way , but I will try it and see . I have used that on a couple of small servers, and there's virtually none performance penalty... [edit] A month ago I get a IDE Raid Controller. that's a great thing, mostly because now I can boot on my Raid 0 (stripe), and they are getting really cheap to buy :-) Until that I have always used the "Software Raid" built into NT/2k/XP. [/edit] - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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It can ;-) On my old computer I had 2 disks striped, and I did it from Win2k Pro (it was the only OS on the pc). I have made, and used, stripeset's from NT4 Workstation, Win2k Pro, and Win XP Pro. - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
Anders Molin wrote: I have made, and used, stripeset's from Win2k Pro, Well, I tried to make a mirror with 2K pro and it promptly told me to bugger off and use Server. *shrug* --Mike-- Just released - RightClick-Encrypt v1.3 - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm