raid and system partition

[kudz]

Is there any form of raid that is able to contain the boot and system partition? I know I have seen it but am at a loss right now

 

[mousseman]

As long as the RAID is hardware-based, Windows does not care if the system partition is on a RAID or a single hard disk.

However, if you only have a software RAID (via W2k), you can't have your system partition on it.

 

[dsturgeon]

Definately go with a hardware-based RAID solution. RAID-1 is easy to set up (mirrored discs) and a decent card will only run you around $100.00 Fish

"Your worst day is only 24 hours long"

 

[devastator]

Boot and systems files on hardware RAID 1 (2 hard drives Mirrored), data on hardware RAID 5 (minimum 3 hard drives), and add another drive if possible for the paging file to sit by itself on, otherwise put on the RAID 5.

Dev

 

[1Drisnil]

Anyone know if what the thought is in having 2 RAID 5 contains, one for System and Boot and one for Data? Is this a poor design choice? I myself always thought good design was to mirror system/Boot partition and RAID 5 the data on a Hardware RAID Controller.

Inquiring Minds,
[SadEyes]