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"Maxim S. Shatskih" <maxim@storagecraft.com> wrote in message 
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>> If your M/Board supports it, setup a hardware raid.  Software Raids are 
>> no
>> good if the OS shits itself.
>
> I don't think Dynamic Disk is worse then the so-called "hardware" RAIDs, 
> who
> are usually implemented in driver software anyway :)
>
> Microsoft and Veritas are more trustworthy companies for me then the 
> Chinese
> RAID chip vendor. At least for El Cheapo hardware Dynamic Disk is probably
> better.
You make a valid point, but what about hardware vendors like Intel and Asus. 
Yes they both make their good and their bad Mobo's, but when it comes down 
to it "You get what you pay for"  We don't want to be sitting around waiting 
for Windoze to reinstall before re-creating our Raid.  Also Windows XP does 
not support any sort of fault tollerance.  So we would still be relying on 
3rd party Asian import software.
>
> Another advantage of Dynamic Disk is easier recovery - the array will 
> assemble
> itself on any other controller flavor, the disks can be plugged in to the
> controllers in any order.
I agree.
>
> And yes - RAID is not for backup, it is for redundancy. For instance, RAID 
> will
> not allow you to recover the accidentally deleted file.
Absolutely!
>
> -- 
> Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
> StorageCraft Corporation
> maxim@storagecraft.com
> http://www.storagecraft.com
>