Hardware RAID is more reliable, generally faster, less configuration headaches, more recovery features, better tech support, better drivers, and it looks good on your resume.
The wonderful thing about hardware RAID is that OS does not interact with it other than needing a driver for the controller card.
After you boot with your configured disk partition(s) you install Windows onto the partition. RAID5 is generally not used by hobbyists. The BIOS in the controller allows you to configure your partitions with your choice of RAID, RAID1 and RAID0 are most popular. Many different hardware cards (SCSI, IDE, sATA, etc) can be bought inexpensively off of eBay and other forums.Īfter the card is installed, drivers are installed, cables are attached, disks attached and powered up. It involves buying a RAID controller card and the desired disks. But would still be 10X easier than this huge list of instructions.Īdding hardware RAID on the other hand would be much more desireable than this mess. To add software RAID to Windows XP would require an unauthorized binary hack, and might not be supported in a future upgrade. I don’t think you really understand the RAID situation.
But if you read the intro to the article, the guy only has Win XP Home, which would require some DLL manipulation – and who knows when Microsoft will decide to plug that particular hole.” “I understand folks who are telling the author “Just Do this in Hardware”.
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