A friend has a new computer on which he has installed XP pro SP 2. The basic setup appears to be AMD Athlon dual core ( not sure of exact processor) 2x 300Gb sata drives in raid 1 mirrored. The discs also appear partitioned, ie. the C drive part is 95Gb and the D drives shows as just under 200Gb, correct figures for 2 mirrored 300Gb drives, or there abouts.
Is it normal that the operating system would be placed on a partion within a raided pair of drives, I've never heard of this being done, but then maybe it's normal - this would mean that the OS and programme files are also "mirrored".
The upshot is, the machine with only one simple audio programme running on it, has problems locating files on the C drive, keeps locking up and is generally sloppy, totally wrong for a new clean machine. There is no antivirus running, no internet.
I wonder if anyone has any views or experience regarding OS on raids?
Thanks
Paul
Is it a Dell ?
..... They did this for one machine in their range , and it took me a while to fix it for a friend.
I disabled raid , and rebuilt as two drives ............... 10 months later no problems have surfaced yet.
No, it's a "bespoke" system for use in audio/music production, built by a "big" company in Germany. I'd kinda concluded that the two drives would be better seperated into Drive 1: System/software and a data drive partition, and drive 2 as a dedicated music/audio drive.
Being 7200rpm sata drives, I'm pretty sure they'll be fast enough.
thanks for your input Gary, I'm a bit unsure with a "raid c" system, just not come across one before.
Paul
a raided 'c' drive is theoretically a great idea.
others here will probably have more info in why it is , i think that only ''important data'' gains from raid1 , and i think that if you ''ghost'' the o/s partition onto dvd , you can rebuild a drive in 20 minutes approx .... maybe faster than repairing a raid1 failure