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[festuc]

Hello,

Does anyone has a Raid 1 made by software in windows 2003 server?

Any inconvenient on doing that?

ex. http://www.netadmintools.com/art439.html

I have 2 HDD but not a hardware raid card.

Best Regards.

[tanfwc]

software raid will share the CPU with the system. Hardware RAID usually have internal battery backup(depends on the brand) & it's own CPU.

[(Stephen)]

It works but fails sync a lot
I tried it on one machine to test one time and it seems it failes and need rebuilt every few weeks even in the lightest of usage.
I was just using it as a little remote desktop/access system.
The drives were not failing and both showing in disk management as well.

[festuc]

ok. Then I think I will be better to stay with a good backup.

Thanks

[mrbister]

Stick to the backup option - or contact your provider and see if they could provide you with a cheap Raid-card, shouldn't be all to expensive. Raid 1 isn't a replacement for offsite-backups, but it sure helps alot to have such configuration.

[CGotzmann]

i would not use software raid. first you will get worse server performance, second you cant count on it to actually work.
keep the performance, get the peace of mind, just use straight backups

[Will-AH]

I would definitely recommend hardware RAID and a good backup strategy.

[fitesun]

buy a raid card,it would be cheap nowaday.
also,raid can not substitute backup,raid1 just help when 1 hard driver fail

[tweakservers]

if you dont know much about S/W raid, you may screw up the whole OS when the RAID fail which will cause a total data lost. Get a RAID card if you want to have a good sleep at night :-)

[TX-Gumbo]

I too cast another vote for hardware RAID.
Software RAID may be okay on a server with low usage but put it under a load and either the RAID performance or the application performance is going to take a hit.

[festuc]

Thanks to all for the replies.

I finaly manage to get RAID 1 HARDWARE with SAS 15krpm drives.

Best Regards.