You can set up most any RAID, if you use a SATA hardware controller card either fixed to the motherboard or as a PCI card. But, then you are booting directly into RAID and are not using any of your OS to control RAID. Hardware RAID is ALWAYS better than software RAID only part of which is if your OS crashes you no longer have a RAID.
Vinny, please read my post more closely. As I stated clearly, yes a hardware controller can run a RAID on nearly anything at least from 2000 up.
WINDOWS XP PRO CANNOT BY ITSELF RUN A RAID1 OR RAID5 OR ANY REDUNDANT RAID FOR THAT MATTER. PERIOD.
It may be a matter of semantics, but when people speak about Windows XP Pro supporting RAID1 it does not -- not in the sense that Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2003 Server can as a software controller.
I would hate to see anyone go out and buy four hard drives to set up a RAID5 or RAID10 with XP Pro only to find out they can only set up a RAID0 which is basically useless. Grab yourself a nice hardware RAID controller.
I think we are basically saying the same thing. I don't mean to be mean or anything, but Paul is in for a rude awakening if he tries to set up a mirror without a hardware controller.
