[AccessD] Interesting Laptop / Vista commentary

Mirrored drives!!!!

One of the best features, IMHO, of Windows 2000, is that it brought
along dynamic disks.  However, with 2000 Pro, XP, (and, as far as I know
Vista), you can only stripe and create RAID5s.  To mirror a dynamic
drive, you need a server OS, Windows 2000 server, 2003 server.

You can, of course, do all of this with a RAID controller too.  In fact,
in the last year or two, motherboards have been coming out with RAID
controllers out there, but before that, they were pretty expensive.
  
A mirrored drive makes life a LOT easier, especially if you have a
system that you NEED to depend on.  What's the worst case scenario for a
development machine?  Losing the hard drive. Well, if you have two
drives mirrored, you can lose one, and you are completely unaffected.

Drew

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte
Foust
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 10:21 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Interesting Laptop / Vista commentary

So what ARE the best reasons for running a server OS on a desktop?

Charlotte Foust 
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