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Old 01-05-2006, 02:37 AM
Kerry Brown
 
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Default Re: stripe hard dives in xp pro

Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
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>> Hi, I have built my new pc and installed windows xp pro..
>> Also i have installed 2x 200 gig HDD and would like to know if i
>> could stripe them or raid them through windows xp pro with out
>> useing a raid card...both hard drives are sata...


XP can create and use striped (RAID 0) volumes.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...ed_volume.mspx

Although it is possible I personally wouldn't recommend it. If one drive
goes bad you lose the data on both drives. The performance increase is
negligible with software RAID.

Kerry


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