[dba-Tech] RAID Drives

It's an old Compaq Proliant with twin 400 Mz CPUs and a hardware RAID,
running Win2K Advanced Server to take advantage of the twin CPUs.

I suppose I should just get off my ass and go down to the basement and
monkey around to see what's what.

Thanks,
Arthur

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Erwin Craps
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Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 4:10 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] RAID Drives


You should also find out if you have a hardware or software raid.
Hardware is with a SCSI RAID controller card like Adaptec or others.
Software is with the windows OS (= slower). I supose your still using
WNT4? (because your server is old...) When using a Software RAID you
should see all your fysical drives in WINDISK (diskmanager) and how they
are put in RAID. For example, you could have two disks in RAID 1 for
performance reasons, and three disks in RAID 5 for capacity reasons...
In W2K you can find the disk management in "System Management".

Erwin