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More info?)
Hi,
Yeah but I have not gotten any problem yet with any mirror, hardware or
software. I reckon the hardware mirror is a lot beter in performance.
Lukesh
"DL" wrote:
> I dont believe most of the kb articles are applicable to a hw mirror
> implimentation
>
> "lukesh" <lukesh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:61CF1EC4-6F2B-45AD-B39A-68E0DCE03FF4@microsoft.com...
> > Hi Atkinson,
> > Theoretically you may face some performance hits but if you ask me, I have
> > done it a number of times and have not faced any problem. Although it has
> > been very helpful when one of the disk fails.
> >
> > Theoretically,
> > RAID 1 is disk mirroring. Two drives store identical information so that
> one
> > is a mirror of the other. For every disk operation, the system must write
> the
> > same information to both disks. Because dual write operations can degrade
> > system performance, many employ duplexing, where each mirror drive has it
> own
> > host adapter. While the mirror approach provides good fault tolerance, it
> is
> > relatively expensive to implement, because only half of the available disk
> > space can be used for storage while the other is used for mirroring.
> >
> > Following might be helpful:
> >
> >
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;100110
> >
> >
>
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/maintain/operate/11w2kada.mspx
> >
> >
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;114779
> >
> > Lukesh
> >
> > "Atkinson" wrote:
> >
> > > I am considering using the RAID1 capability of my motherboard to make
> > > the Boot and System drive a RAID1 (mirrored) array. Some people have
> > > told me that I will take a big performance hit doing this, but I have
> > > found articles that show the performance hit is very small.
> > >
> > > What are the feelings of this group? Is a RAID1 boot disk a good idea?
> > >
> > > -Landy
> > >
>
>
>
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