raid-1 setup

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My hard drive recently failed and I'd like to set-up two
200GB hard drives in raid-1 format so one hard drive
mirrors the other.I'm working in windowsXP.Any ideas?

 

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Hello

Read about raid setup, they are lots of articles about raid.

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-raid2/


Alvin


PJK wrote:

> My hard drive recently failed and I'd like to set-up two
> 200GB hard drives in raid-1 format so one hard drive
> mirrors the other.I'm working in windowsXP.Any ideas?

 

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"PJK" said in news:19d6301c41cd1$19eb4c50$a101280a@phx.gbl:
> My hard drive recently failed and I'd like to set-up two
> 200GB hard drives in raid-1 format so one hard drive
> mirrors the other.I'm working in windowsXP.Any ideas?

On what? That it provides disaster recovery? Yes. That it will have
no impact on performance? No, because of the doubled writes (no, the
performance doesn't halve but there is a performance hit). That it is
cost effective for disaster recovery? Depends on your need for how fast
the system must be back up versus cheaper removable media, like CD-Rs,
DVDs, or tape that can be stored safely offsite (so they don't burn up
with the computer), aren't susceptible to surges, don't wear out while
continuously running in the background, or consume any power. Mirrors
do fail. You get one snapshot of your system, so you cannot use it, for
example, to go back to a snapshot before that trojan infected your
system and so thoroughly corrupted it that the system is unusable.
Mirroring is not for backing up your system and provides no history.
Mirroring is for disaster recovery to get quickly your system back up
with almost the same setup it had when the primary drive fails. You are
assuming mirroring is going to be your panacea to a dead hard drive. If
this is for a home system, FIRST you need to consider a backup strategy.
If this is for work use, backup strategy should have already been in
place, but your "my drive failed" message indicates it is not a server
at your company. Mirroring is for when you need your downed system
backup right NOW! Even with mirroring, you will still need to perform
backups to recover data from accidental deletion or corruption and to
provide a snapshot to let you return the system to a prior known good
state.

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If you do not need to do hot swaps I would use a second drive and use ghost
or disk image to back up partitions on a weekly basis or data on a daily
basis.
This also allows you to recover from viruses. A mirror will simply write
the virus to both disks.
"PJK" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My hard drive recently failed and I'd like to set-up two
> 200GB hard drives in raid-1 format so one hard drive
> mirrors the other.I'm working in windowsXP.Any ideas?

 

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>-----Original Message-----
>"PJK" said in news:19d6301c41cd1$19eb4c50
$a101280a@phx.gbl:
>> My hard drive recently failed and I'd like to set-up two
>> 200GB hard drives in raid-1 format so one hard drive
>> mirrors the other.I'm working in windowsXP.Any ideas?
>
>On what? That it provides disaster recovery? Yes. That
it will have
>no impact on performance? No, because of the doubled
writes (no, the
>performance doesn't halve but there is a performance
hit). That it is
>cost effective for disaster recovery? Depends on your
need for how fast
>the system must be back up versus cheaper removable
media, like CD-Rs,
>DVDs, or tape that can be stored safely offsite (so they
don't burn up
>with the computer), aren't susceptible to surges, don't
wear out while
>continuously running in the background, or consume any
power. Mirrors
>do fail. You get one snapshot of your system, so you
cannot use it, for
>example, to go back to a snapshot before that trojan
infected your
>system and so thoroughly corrupted it that the system is
unusable.
>Mirroring is not for backing up your system and provides
no history.
>Mirroring is for disaster recovery to get quickly your
system back up
>with almost the same setup it had when the primary drive
fails. You are
>assuming mirroring is going to be your panacea to a dead
hard drive. If
>this is for a home system, FIRST you need to consider a
backup strategy.
>If this is for work use, backup strategy should have
already been in
>place, but your "my drive failed" message indicates it is
not a server
>at your company. Mirroring is for when you need your
downed system
>backup right NOW! Even with mirroring, you will still
need to perform
>backups to recover data from accidental deletion or
corruption and to
>provide a snapshot to let you return the system to a
prior known good
>state.
>
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>.To vanguard,Thanks for the thought provoking reply.
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