Windows XP & Software RAID

JrRacinFan · Jun 11, 2012, 12:32 PM

Anyone know how to setup a JBOD software stripe in XP? I have an older Dell(Not Win7 compatible) I am building into a NAS box and rather than have a few smaller drives I'd rather do one big drive.

brandonwh64 · Jun 11, 2012, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by JrRacinFan

Anyone know how to setup a JBOD software stripe in XP? I have an older Dell(Not Win7 compatible) I am building into a NAS box and rather than have a few smaller drives I'd rather do one big drive.

No raid support in bios? If not I don't think you can due to it not being able to boot from the raid array? I maybe wrong though. Are you going to have a OS drive then the raid array on another partition?

JrRacinFan · Jun 11, 2012, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by brandonwh64

Are you going to have a OS drive then the raid array on another partition?

Regular drive + Software Raid.

DanTheBanjoman · Jun 11, 2012, 12:48 PM

You can't boot from software RAID in Windows. If you boot from another drive you have to make the disks dynamic.
RAID 0 is a really bad idea for storage. You can run something like FreeNAS though.

JrRacinFan · Jun 11, 2012, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by DanTheBanjoman

You can run something like FreeNAS though.

Thank you for the suggestion. Would rather not do that because sometimes there would be guests in the house. Hate it when they use my PC and of course the lady is so picky about hers. FreeNAS is unfortunately out of the question

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EDIT:

Know of any other way to accomplish a "single mapped drive" that spans acrossed 2, Dan?

brandonwh64 · Jun 11, 2012, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by JrRacinFan

Thank you for the suggestion. Would rather not do that because sometimes there would be guests in the house. Hate it when they use my PC and of course the lady is so picky about hers. FreeNAS is unfortunately out of the question

.

EDIT:

Know of any other way to accomplish a "single mapped drive" that spans acrossed 2, Dan?

This looks like the best way I can think of

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/36504...-in-windows-7/

JrRacinFan · Jun 11, 2012, 01:25 PM

Yeah that's what i did. Setup a spanned drive then allowed file sharing+write access from the root of the volume. So far it's working.

brandonwh64 · Jun 11, 2012, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by JrRacinFan

Yeah that's what i did. Setup a spanned drive then allowed file sharing+write access from the root of the volume. So far it's working.

Awesome! Yea this looks to be a good way to do sofware raid on other than OS drives

JrRacinFan · Jun 11, 2012, 06:29 PM

Did it but how in the heck do I get the remaining of my boot drive to include in the span(won't let me change remaining to dynamic)!? Should I just throw a 4th drive in my configuration, I do have a small 10GB that is a backup of my softmodded xbox1's 160GB drive that I could throw in there. Converting the 120GB as dynamic and adding to the span. Here's what I got setup so far

Drive E: is a span, Drive D: is remaining of the 120GB WD Caviar.

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JrRacinFan Served 5k and counting ... Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Youngstown, OH Posts: 16,121 (7.05/day) Thanks: 4,149 Thanked 4,552 Times in 4,027 Posts System Specs	Did it but how in the heck do I get the remaining of my boot drive to include in the span(won't let me change remaining to dynamic)!? Should I just throw a 4th drive in my configuration, I do have a small 10GB that is a backup of my softmodded xbox1's 160GB drive that I could throw in there. Converting the 120GB as dynamic and adding to the span. Here's what I got setup so far Drive E: is a span, Drive D: is remaining of the 120GB WD Caviar. __________________ Graphics Artists United™ Request Thread Low Cache CPU Club Solaris Utility DVD 3.0 DanishDevil's Logitech Soundroom TPU Video Gallery Sciencemark Revisited Last edited by JrRacinFan; Jun 11, 2012 at 06:34 PM.

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