Formerly unknown to me, Windows XP provides free software-based RAID 0. I decided to try it out this weekend, as I'm adding a new drive to a machine.
The basic instructions are here.
Overall, it worked very well, except I made one careless mistake and wiped out one entire drive.
Here is a more comprehensive article from a 3rd party, that even has benchmarking results.
Overall, their results indicate that software and hardware RAID 0 setups are almost equivalent in performance, and either is roughly 25-30% better performing than a single drive.
RAID 0 for Free - Windows XP/2000
RAID 0 is disk-striping, any # of disks.
There is no data redundancy or cheksums whatsoever. It basically is a way of making (for example) 2 120GB drives behave like a single (and faster) 240GB drive.
In Windows XP, it can be any # of drive partitions combined together, but they all have to be of the same size, or it gets reduced to (# of disks) * (size of smallest partition included)
There is no data redundancy or cheksums whatsoever. It basically is a way of making (for example) 2 120GB drives behave like a single (and faster) 240GB drive.
In Windows XP, it can be any # of drive partitions combined together, but they all have to be of the same size, or it gets reduced to (# of disks) * (size of smallest partition included)
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