Mirroring question on SATA hard drives
Hello, I need some setup advice. I am going to setup a computer to be a test server. It will be a test server for quite awhile so I want to make sure that I do it correctly. This machine will be running Windows 2003 Server with AD. I bought two SATA drives and I want to mirror them. Should I connect the drives to the same cable or should each of them be on their own cable? Also, this will be a software raid rather than a hardware raid so is that a bad thing? Thanks.
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No.Windows server
No.
Windows server RAID is all you would need.
Windows server RAID is all you would need.
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I found that my motherboard does support a hardware RAID. So, I will use the motherboard instead of a software RAID. Thank you everyone for helping me on this. I do have to give rindi most of the points because he came up with a good solution first and you guys seem to support it too. Thanks!!!
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BTW, my motherboard is an ASUS M2NPV-VM
Part No. 90-MIB065-G0AAYZ
Part No. 90-MIB065-G0AAYZ
I wish you have given all to rindi, I just wanted to add to rindi's original answer. But thanks anyway. Sorry rindi :/
your welcome
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