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From: System Administrator <sysadmin@bitterroot.net>
To: ntisp@iea-software.com <ntisp@iea-software.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: RAID 5 Partitions
>>From what we can ascertain, a OS bootable/redundant RAID 5
>configuration using our 3 9GB drives must be established during
>the installation of NT 4.0.
>
>However we see no facility from within
>the NT installation process to partition our 3 drives as anything
>but FAT or NTFS on a Primary partition.
>
>J.M.
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>At 01:24 PM 7/27/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>Paul Sheahan wrote:
>>>
>>> I haven't seen or heard of an NT bootable RAID5 system. But if it can be
>>> done as Tangent says, you can use NTFS or FAT. Use FAT only if you are
dual
>>> booting another OS that can't support NTFS. Otherwise, always use NTFS
as it
>>> provides better performance than FAT on any drives over 400 meg, among
all
>>> of the other security features.
>>
>>All hardware RAID systems make the RAID drives appear to the OS
>>however the RAID is configured. Therefore, you can configure a RAID5
>>set with 3 drives (a total of 18gb) to apear as a single 18gb
>>hard drive to NT. NT just uses it likes its an 18gb drive.
>>
>>Software RAID5 is much different and probably what you are thinking
>>about.
>>
>>--
>>Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea-software.com)
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>>
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