RE: External Hard drive enclosures for storage

["Dean Smith" <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you happen to know if the use of firewire drives as dynamic drives is
limited only to XP (as per that article) or is it available on Win2K Server
?

I currently a Win2K server with 2x160Gb IDE drives as single logical drive.
I've nearly filled it - and the lack of any resilience (in fact the
opposite
almost) makes me nervous.

If I could use a 4 bay firewire enclosure , 4 x 250Gb drives to give a
single 750Gb volume using Software raid 5 , I'd be slightly happier. I'm
not
after ultimate performance at all, I rarely have more than 1 client
accessing the server at any time, but ability to survive a disk failure
would be good.

Dean
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 18 January 2005 22:52
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] External Hard drive enclosures for storage



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Smith [mailto:dean@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 18 January 2005 22:32
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] External Hard drive enclosures for storage
>
> Phil
>
> How does it appear to the OS ?
>
> Do you see 1 single Drive equal to total space across all
> drives - Or each drive seperately.?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dean

Each of the sixteen drives appears to the OS as a separate drive *HOWEVER*
they can be configured as:

1) Sixteen separate drives. (e.g. drive letters D, E, F, G, H etc...)

2) A striped or spanned array. (Using dynamic discs and the info here
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299598&sd=tech)

3) A set of drives mounted into empty NTFS folders.

I do the latter so my client PCs see a single network drive.

Phil