RAID 1 mirroring hard drive for a laptop? Unlike a desktop, laptops often don't have the hardware capability for two HD RAID 1. I have two disk used to set as Raid 0, and another disk as ACHI . I accidentally set them as Raid 5, and created a 50G partition....

would probably to use RAID 0+1 (two 3-disk RAID0 sets mirrored as a RAID 1 set). You could try to use individual drives or multiple RAID1 or RAID0 sets and try to allocate busy files to different drives/sets, but you'll likely end up with some sets more...

up a mirrored RAID within these systems. I've done this with two Dell xps 630i's before and also had one HDD fail on me within the raid and was able to get everything off of the remaining working raid drive. NOTE: Also I plan on overclocking my i7 920...

Kit Desktop Memory Model TR3X6G1600C8D - Retail Western Digital Caviar Blue WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive ---- x2 (Set up to mirror RAID) I was gonna use my old case, power supply and CD/DVD drives and I...

Once you're back into Windows, follow the same procedure to recreate your mirror RAID set as you did above (this time with both 1TB drives). I'm guessing this is going to take about 2-4 hrs for the RAID set to be created. Once your 1TB RAID mirror is created...

but its where I want to save data that I want to keep ( thats why its mirrored ). When I boot I see the RAID showing a mirror striped set but when I get into WinXP it only shows the one SATA drive. I installed the SATA Raid utility that came with the motherboard...

RAID and Windows 2000. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup () I know that Windows 2000 pro doesn't allow you to create disk mirroring or RAID 5 but I deal with charities and they all have very limited budgets and donated equipment. Many...

solutions that allow on-the-fly backup by forming and breaking mirrored RAID sets, but those are specifically engineered to do that. The kinds of RAID solutions you'll see for desktop systems aren't designed with that in mind and IMHO you're skating on thin...

in message news:HKzgd.2448$fC4.242@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com... > 3) Not true. You can add second hard drives of any size without setting> up a raid. > WSZsr, How useful is setting up a RAID in personal computers today, if some one can have...