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To: malibuca who wrote (38328)	12/10/2003 7:07:32 PM
From: thecow	Respond to of 110581

I have no experience with raid configurations. I believe I have seen some raid posts on this thread. You might post your question there as well. Subject 18946

To: malibuca who wrote (38328)	12/10/2003 8:25:35 PM
From: Ira Player	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110581

Unfortunately, most RAID systems require a blank set of drives to start. The structure of the files on the RAID disk is not 'standard' NTFS. Check the documentation. It probably states that in setting up the RAID array, all data is lost on the drives. (Because it's own format is placed on the drives.) I started with clean drives and set up RAID 0 (Striped) with one set of drives and RAID 1 (Mirrored) for another set. The RAID 0 array is for Operating System, Program Files and Swap Files because Striping increases throughput performance. The RAID 1 Drives are for all data because Mirroring provides some protection against data loss. I still do frequent data backups, because even without a drive failure, I sometimes fat finger in an error and loose data I wanted. (Operator error cannot be fixed with RAID. Ira