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Originally Posted by jfma  But, can you do it on different size disks? How? On Linux I only have to make same size partitions to enable RAID. For example, I can have 4 disks with these sizes: 40GB, 80GB, 120GB and 120GB and I can do the following:
1 partition for the whole 40GB disk (let's call it disk A)
1 partition for the 80GB disk (disk B)
2 partitions for each 120GB disk (disks C and D), one partition with 40GB and another with 80GB.
Then I can have RAID 5 with disk A and the 40GB partitions in disks C and D. And with the 80GB disk B and the other two 80GB partitions (disks C and D) I can have another RAID 5. Any disk may fail and the array can be rebuilt.
Can you do that with Windows XP? |
at first, i hope that this does not (again) drift to a Windows :vs: Linux War ! about the Raid (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks): ::RAID-wikipedia::
generally speaking, forgett these software raid "solutions" (Windows/Linux doesnt matter).
better buy a decent RAID-Conroller.
you should also be aware of the fact that a high performance RAID, requires HDDs with equal capacity.
::RAID-Levels::
please do not use JBOD, use RAID1, 5 or 6.