[BC] Re: RAID servers

[Jerry Mathis]

I don't claim to be a RAID expert, but I've always understood that a RAID
array holds DATA ONLY, or at least NOT the OS. The C: drive should be a
SEPARATE drive. I can understand how RAID wouldn't work if the OS and
program in ON the RAID drives.

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Jerry Mathis

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:21 PM, <towers at mre.com> wrote:

> On our HP file servers, we tried RAID 1 (mirrored). We lost a drive and
> the machine became a door stop when we tried to install a new drive and
> have it reformat. It took a complete reload of the OS and reconfigure to
> bring it back to life.
>
> RAID isn't all it's cracked up to be when used as a C drive......
>
> MM
>