Re: External Hard drive enclosures for storage

["John Andrews" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dean

Win2k does NOT support dynamic disks via firewire, I know I tried it!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Smith" <dean@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 7:17 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] External Hard drive enclosures for storage


>
> Do you happen to know if the use of firewire drives as dynamic drives
is
> limited only to XP (as per that article) or is it available on Win2K
> Server
> ?
>
> I currently a Win2K server with 2x160Gb IDE drives as single logical
> drive.
> I've nearly filled it - and the lack of any resilience (in fact the
> opposite
> almost) makes me nervous.
>
> If I could use a 4 bay firewire enclosure , 4 x 250Gb drives to give a
> single 750Gb volume using Software raid 5 , I'd be slightly happier.
I'm
> not
> after ultimate performance at all, I rarely have more than 1 client
> accessing the server at any time, but ability to survive a disk
failure
> would be good.
>
> Dean
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
>  Sent: 18 January 2005 22:52
>  To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>  Subject: RE: [ukha_d] External Hard drive enclosures for storage
>
>
>
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: Dean Smith [mailto:dean@xxxxxxx]
>  > Sent: 18 January 2005 22:32
>  > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>  > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] External Hard drive enclosures for storage
>  >
>  > Phil
>  >
>  > How does it appear to the OS ?
>  >
>  > Do you see 1 single Drive equal to total space across all
>  > drives - Or each drive seperately.?
>  >
>  > Thanks
>  >
>  > Dean
>
>  Each of the sixteen drives appears to the OS as a separate drive
> *HOWEVER*
>  they can be configured as:
>
>  1) Sixteen separate drives. (e.g. drive letters D, E, F, G, H etc...)
>
>  2) A striped or spanned array. (Using dynamic discs and the info here
>  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299598&sd=tech)
>
>  3) A set of drives mounted into empty NTFS folders.
>
>  I do the latter so my client PCs see a single network drive.
>
>  Phil
>
>
>
>
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