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On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:58:23 -0500, JabberSmith wrote:

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>"ºoºfizzyºoº" <> wrote in message
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>> Is it possible to buy a PC with some sort of RAID technology built-in?
>> Basically, we need a system which will write to two drives at a time so if
>> one drive goes down we can automatically read the data from the other
>drive
>> immediately.
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>> Does anyone know of a way to do this without spending thousands of pounds?
>>
>>
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>If you are using windows 2000 or higher, there is a "mirroring" function
>built into the drive controllers.
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>With two reasonably identical drives you can mirror the data drive with
>Windows. (Though I would put them on separate IDE controllers).
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>To answer your question directly:
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>Yes, RAID motherboards are available. (Note they require SCSI disks) IDE

Not my Gigabyte 8PE667 Ultra2, both the basic IDE RAID (level 0/1, 2
drives only and 2 drives level 0) and the SATA IDE (2 drives) both RAID.

It's also possible (may be in 24HSHD archive groups.google.com) there is
an adapter I was told about. Get a good quality SCSI RAID controller and
use less expensive IDE disks via the adpater (SCSI-IDE) converter.

>mirroring may be the way to go for you though.
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ºoºfizzyºoº <> typed
|| What's that supposed to mean??

It means exactly what it says.

"There are dozens of mainboards being sold these days with on board RAID
controllers.

Do some research on RAID and also on different brands of mainboards, so you
get an idea of what you're getting into."

Is English your second language?

Read below, the question you asked.

Then read below, the answer I gave, or if you prefer to read above I've
repeaded the same answer.

I'll try answering a different way.

Yes it *is* possible to buy a PC with some sort of RAID technology built-in.

It's called RAID onboard.

What's you've described below as your need is precicely what RAID does.

Because there are actually about a dozen different RAID configurations
available you'd best head off to do some research to find which will be most
suitable for your needs. You can stard at www.raid.org

Is that more to your liking?

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||||| Is it possible to buy a PC with some sort of RAID technology
||||| built-in? Basically, we need a system which will write to two
||||| drives at a time so if one drive goes down we can automatically
||||| read the data from the other drive immediately.
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||||| Does anyone know of a way to do this without spending thousands of
||||| pounds?
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||| There are dozens of mainboards being sold these days with on board
||| RAID controllers.
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||| Do some research on RAID and also on different brands of
||| mainboards, so
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||| get an idea of what you're getting into.
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Kraftee <> typed
|| ºoºfizzyºoº wrote:
||| Is it possible to buy a PC with some sort of RAID technology
||| built-in? Basically, we need a system which will write to two
||| drives at a time so if one drive goes down we can automatically
||| read the data from the other drive immediately.
|||
||| Does anyone know of a way to do this without spending thousands of
||| pounds?
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|| The answer is yes, but Raid doesn't work that way, if one hardrive
|| goes down you've effectively lost everything as the data is shared
|| between the 2 drives, not duplicated on both...

ahhh, actually RAID *does* work that way.

Though it is referred to as RAID 0, it's not technically a RAID. R being for
Redundant.



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