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[Solved] Is it true some programs won't run on a raid 0 configuration?

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jlaavenger   10-01-2009 at 12:13:53 PM

Is it true some programs won't run on a raid 0 configuration? Our companies IT guy told me this last night. Why would that be?

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There may be some low-level stand-alone utilities like partition imaging programs or data recovery software that could have problems, either because they lack the proper drivers to access the RAID set or because they don't recognize the on-disk structure of the data.

But as sub mesa said, any software that you run inside the operating system doesn't know and doesn't care whether the disks are using RAID, no matter what level (0, 1, 5, etc.) it is.
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Bronze Storage badge sub mesa   10-01-2009 at 02:43:08 PM

Software only knows about operating system API's and have no direct access to the raw disk contents. In other words, normal applications can never even know they are on a RAID volume, so your IT-guy statement is pretty weak as it is. There's no reason to think running a RAID0 will get you into problems with applications who have trouble with this in some way; it shouldn't.

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Bronze Storage badge sminlal   10-01-2009 at 07:32:46 PM
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There may be some low-level stand-alone utilities like partition imaging programs or data recovery software that could have problems, either because they lack the proper drivers to access the RAID set or because they don't recognize the on-disk structure of the data.

But as sub mesa said, any software that you run inside the operating system doesn't know and doesn't care whether the disks are using RAID, no matter what level (0, 1, 5, etc.) it is.

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