2 Hard drives = 1 Partition

[Charliesz]

Good day.

Does Windows XP offer any built-in software RAID functionality?

I have 2 Hard drives. I need to "make" them into 1 large hard drive. I know it is possible with the use of RAID cards. Is there a way to do that using 3rd party utilities or perhaps WinXP includes something of its own. If yes, what would you recommend?



Thanks.

 

[JGillespie]

not RAID but DFS, look it up!

Jamie Gillespie
Senior IT Technician
South Cheshire College
j-gillespie@s-cheshire.ac.uk

 

[Charliesz]

Thanks for the suggestion!

I've just found my solution and it is the use of "Dynamic Disk"s.

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ltop]

In W2K, you need to make the disks dynamic before you start doing anything with raid settings.

Your wanting to take two drives and use raid 0 to make the large partition over the two drives - there is no fault tolerance using this method. If one drive fails, you loose all the data. That being the case, do you have a method of backup, like tape, that you could use.

Raid 0 does give you an improvement in the drive performance though, but with the relatively low $ per Gb cost, why not just buy a larger disc. You may then be able to use the present discs in a raid 1 with the new large disc.

regards

 

[Charliesz]

Thanks!