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Raid 1 possible on XP 64-bit??

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guppyfisherman

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Hello,

I am having difficulty setting up a Raid 1 configuration on my Windows XP x-64 machine. I am a photographer, so please pardon my non-expertise in this area.

I have bought a dual drive hotswap SATA-Vue system (http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg53_satahot-swapbackup.htm) for backups of my image files. What I was hoping to do was to have the second drive mirror the contents of the first drive.

I got the PCI-express controler card installed properly, which uses a Silicon Image chip (Sil 3132 for Windows XP 64). Plus, both drives installed properly and are recognizable in Disk Management.

However, when going through the New Volume Wizard, I only receive three choices for volumes, (1) Simple, (2) Spanned, and (3) Striped. Though I might add in the description above the three choices it says, "There are five types of volumes: simple, spanned, striped, mirrored, and Raid-5"

Either of the drives format under those three choices. But I want to set them up so that the second mirrors the first.

I really appreciate any suggestions and advice on how to do this!

Not sure if this is necessary information... but in my Device Manager, under the SCSI and RAID controllers section, I have three items listed: (1) NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA RAID Controller, (2) NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA RAID Controller, and (3) Silicon Image Sil3132 SATALink Controller. (Not sure why numbers 1 & 2 are the same...)
 
Raid is not a backup. What if a virus modifies the drive that's in all the time in a bad way (let's say it corrupts all your pictures, but ones that you're not using so you don't notice): when you plug the backup drive in the controller will do exactly what it's designed to do. And mess up the other copy, too. What you probably want to do instead is set up a real backup system with something like Retrospect so that you have compressed, differential backups. Then you can get different versions of a given file, not just the latest.

However, if you decide that raid is really what you want, press the hotkey that your controller displays at startup (before the Windows splashscreen) and go through setting up the array in the config utility.

 
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