A quick overview of RAID

Why should you use RAID in your Small Business Server? In this short presentation we'll show you why you should use RAID and why you should consider RAID 5 as the preferred solution for data protection.

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• sbs
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[zacheryandersen]

can i boot form a software raid?

[saturnalliance]

@zacheryandersen Yes you can but there can be cionfiguration issues with software RAID. Hardware is always better.

[zacheryandersen]

i have windows already installed and want to setup a raid, can i install nvraid with windows already installed? i don't have a floppy drive either. after i setup the raid i want to clone my current system drive to the raid array. is this possible?

[saturnalliance]

@zacheryandersen Yes you can install RAID with windows already installed but I wouldn't generally recommend it. Reason is if you make a mistake chances are you'll wipe your data. You can clone your data using some sort of imaging tool since a RAID disk is seen like a normal disk by the operating system so once it is running it shoudn't matter whether RAID is present to the OS. I would say that this is the case with Hardware RAID not software RAID. I wouldn't recommend SOFTWARE RAID, go HARDWARE.

[saturnalliance]

@zacheryandersen Best bet is simply to google 'install nvraid'.

[oscar7610]

my 1tb harddrive is slow when boot windows 64bit

i got 160gig and 1tb with no raid!! is that why it is slow?

[saturnalliance]

@oscar7610 No. I doubt whether RAID would make any difference. I would be lookign elsewhere for solutions.

[LellePrinter82]

Nice explanation video, I would choose raid 1 for my operating system.

[zacheryandersen]

@saturnalliance yeah I have. lots of different info.

[zacheryandersen]

Respond to this video...I tried setting up the RAID through bios and RAID setup both of which I did correctly I just need to install the NVRAID drivers.

[zacheryandersen]

@saturnalliance I yeah know how to do software RAID and was considering it but I've given up on that route due to it's lack of advantages. I guess the only problem I'm have is getting NVRAID installed without a floppy drive and on a computer that is currently running an OS. So how do I install NVRAID on to my current OS without a floppy? Or do I even need to install NVRAID?