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Software RAID on Windows XP

OK, it's a nerd thing to do, especially when decent hardware RAID is available for about $200. And by decent hardware I'm talking about a Promise FastTrak SX 4000 or better, not the fake RAID TX series that offloads all the RAID onto the local CPU. (You spend money and still get software RAID...!)

Note, this takes a bit of work to set up and will probably void any chances of getting MS support, not that the chances are very good of that anyway...

A brief summary: Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 share the same base OS design, and software RAID is disabled for Windows XP. You can enable it per the instructions below. Note - I've not tried this, I'm perfectly happy with an older adaptec U131 SCSI card for my XP workstation, thanks.

Read the article here:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=830&page=1

Posted by John Seaman on February 28, 2005 10:48 PM |

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