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i heard somewhere that with win2000 i can partition 2 identitcal hdds into one partition, something like raid.
how can i do this?
yes... i remember reading somthing like that. it's something to do with the directory services or somthing. i scanned through it when i searched in the help for 'file replication'. so check out directory services... i'm not on a Win2k machine right now so can't find it for ya exactly...
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It's called a striped volume and here's how u do it:
1-Open Computer Management (Local).
2-In the console tree, click Disk Management.
Computer Management (Local)
Storage
Disk Management
3-Right-click unallocated space on one of the dynamic disks (A physical disk that is managed by Disk Management. Dynamic disks can contain only dynamic volumes where you want to create the striped volume, and then click Create Volume.
4-In the Create Volume wizard, click Next, click Striped volume, and then follow the instructions on your screen.i got that on this sitehttp://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/nt5help/Enterprise/en/dm_striped_volume.htm
have fun...
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thanks for the info!!!
i just tried this out, but i haven't found any "dynamic disks"
from microsoft help i found that it has something to do with NTFS... but i'm not sure... is it related with NTFS?
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Thats interesting...........I wonder how that arrangment would work if you wanted to do a Image of your system for backup purposes.
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There are differences here. Check the help files on Win 2000 for detailed explanations.
A volume can join 2 1GB disks to make what appears as a single 2GB drive, this is not RAID as there is no redundacy, this is a way to use a few small drives to appear as 1.
A mirror of the same 2 drives will give you what appears as a single 1GB drive. The second drive is an exact copy of the first - a mirror, this is the lowest form of RAID. It also wastes more space as you get 50% of your drive space, but should a drive fail you have your data on the mirrored drive.
Is your desired result backup of a drive or spanning a volume (appears as a single drive) across multiple smaller drives?
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I have 2 identical old SCSI 1GB hardisks. I want them combined with software raid and gonna use them only for win2000 swapfile and tempfiles. i heard it's gonna give them reduced acces time (double speed).
is that a good idea?
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