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    Windows 10 RAID 5, hardware or software

    Thanks to my discovery of this forum my video server is well on its way to being set-up (Thanks to Neemobeer). My next question has to do with setting up a RAID 5 array. As I understand RAID it provides some level of data redundancy and a higher read speed than a plain old JBOD (spanning)...
    • Kurt Giesselman
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    • asus a8n-sli configuration data protection data redundancy drive array hardware raid jbod nvidia performance raid 5 sata ports server setup silicon image software raid storage solutions technical discussion toshiba drives user inquiry video server windows
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 8 windows 8 raid 0 Q

    hi guys i did a raid 0 on my windows 8 [software raid not a hardware] and my question is how much ''stripe size{4k 16K 64K}'' is use's? becose i'm combining software raid with hardware raid thank's in advance
    • cj4life
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    • configuration data management hardware raid performance raid software raid storage stripe size windows 8
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Software
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    Another RAID 5 fails?

    i have googled the web but could not come up with any answers. I have a windows softwareraid "5" (yes plz hate me for this) with 3x3TB disks, one disk recensently failed. I have just replaced the bad disk with a new one. But i have still no way to add the new disk to the "old" raid, and the bad...
    • Einar
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    • basic data recovery disk management disks dynamic failure gpt hardware raid mbr missing disk movies raid 5 replacement smart software raid storage storage solutions troubleshooting tv shows windows
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Server Forums
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    Windows 7 Inconsistent BSOD

    I have a computer I built years ago that is used as a media center. Its attached to my TV and runs XBMC. I RDP into another session and run media manager apps and some file servers. Its prone to crashing. I disabled hardware raid in favor of using window's software raid, and that has reduced...
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    What Is RAID

    The article covers Advantages of RAID, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 10 or 1+0, RAID 5, Software vs. Hardware RAID and Drive Selection What is RAID?
    • Adamsappleone
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    • advantages capacity configuration data management data redundancy disks drive selection end user enterprise hardware raid performance raid raid 0 raid 1 raid 10 raid 5 reliability server software raid storage
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: General Computing
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    Windows 7 Unable to Transfer file thru usb port

    Dear all, I have a desktop pc running windows 7 ultimate, i hosted a software raid 1 by diskpart, I don't know why i am not able to transfer file to portable harddrive/usb flash drive, It just show calculating for long long time, sometime even handed However, i tried to clone a harddisk image...
    • Andrew Chan
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    • desktop pc diskpart file transfer flash drive norton ghost portable harddrive software raid troubleshooting usb port windows 7
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Mirroring Performance

    I setup a redundancy using windows 7 for the time being until I can afford a decent RAID card. My question is whether or not I will have near double read speed by using it. I know that since only some software RAID has this ability, I bet I don't... but I have no idea how to tell. For...
    • bverd759
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    • caviar black core i7 hard drives mirroring performance raid redundancy software raid windows 7 x58 motherboard
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  8. K

    Windows 7 Windows Dynamic Volume FAILED on import

    Sorry for the long post :( I have 7 hard disks, all SATA 3 - are a hardware based raid 5 array 4 - are a raid-5 dynamic volume. All disks are intact no damage. Dynamic volume was used 2 hours ago, no issue I wanted to load windows 7 on it to see how it would perform on this machine. So...
    • kenny782
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    • data loss data recovery disk management dynamic volume event viewer foreign disks hardware raid ide drive import failure performance testing raid sata software raid system boot troubleshooting windows windows 7 windows xp
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Can you convert Windows 7 boot partition into a dynamic disk?

    Hello, I want to setup a Raid 1 mirror from one drive to another using Windows software raid. I know in XP you could not do this on the boot partition (C drive). Is it possible to do this in Windows 7? Thanks
    • npolite
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    • boot partition data backup disk management dynamic disk mirror setup partitioning raid 1 software raid windows 7 windows xp
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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