Software Raid with WIN2K HOW??? I have 2 10gb western digital hard drives, and a 3gb to boot from.

[Carmine_Paterno]

I have heard about software raid without the raid hardware. Do i need any special hardware for it to work? I have 2 10gb western digital hard drives (1 is 7200rpm and the other is 5400 rpm) and i have another 1 to boot from (tim told me to do this). I am looking for a little more performance out of my system with raid. Will this squeeze a little more out? I have the following system :
Celeron II 700 @ 877 1.65v (1.7v default) cC0
Coolermaster AMD Thunderbird/Duron heatsink (works extremely well)
ASUS P3V4X (Winbond chipset, not 80, 85, 90, 95fsb's only 83, 100 etc.)
2 sticks PC133 Ram (1 is 64mb, other is 128mb) MICRON
WIN2K
2 10gb western digital hard drives
ATI RADEON 32MB DDR 166/333 @ 200/400


SYSTEM is perfectly stable in quake3, unreal tournament, 3dmark, everything. MY system rocks right now, but i wish i had more speed, but i think raid will help it out a little bit b4 i upgrade my mobo to a soyo and bump the fsb to 90-95fsb instead of 83. I just need instructions on how to set it up, and use it. I have been playing around for computers all my life from 8086's so i don't need dummy instructions. By the way i am only 15....not to bad huh?


Thanx in advance.

[HostileBastard]

I don't think you can run software RAID with Win2k, must be hardware. Also they are going to run at the speed of the slower drive so RAID with 5400rpm isn't that fast.

Hostile

[Carmine_Paterno]

but it will be faster thought right?

[Moophus]

You *CAN* run software RAID in Win2k, but it has to be "Win2k Server" - expensive and something most don't have access to. It'd be cheaper to get a four drive raid card like one of those promise fasttrack things. Haven't used one myself, but seems ok. Anyone have any experience with those?

[engjohn]

You *CAN* run a *SOFTWARE* raid set with scsi. In win2k PRO. I have two 3gig 7200 seagate SCSI drives in a software raid setup. They are running on an Adaptec 2940U scsi card. They are raid 0(striping). They do not call it raid in win2k pro, just a stripe set. I do not know if you can do this with IDE or not.