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anyone here using or has used that option under windows 2003? i think im more than likely going to set up this server to use seperate discs as i have never been a fan of sotfware raid
Software RAID doesn't impact modern CPU's enough to worry for home or low-mid level server use.
I haver server 2003 doing software raid0 for my file server at the moment
Found out that the systems shipped with a setup of Raid 0 [Thank the techs at Dell but the true fault lies with IT always check your stuff before deploying]. Funny thing was it didn't matter since we lost 3 out 5 we couldn't build from the array. Whats that you say? Build from our tape backups? lol my good buddy and boss was not running the backups 100% the way they should. It was a nightmare and one I never want to relive. Now running 6 drives on new Dell poweredge/s. No clusters all standalone. 2 drives are OS / 3 raid 5 and one hot spare[Cheetah drives 15,000 rpms 150gigs].