#raid-1

Fixed: Does software RAID 1 in Windows 7 improve read speeds? #it #development #programming

Does software RAID 1 in Windows 7 improve read speeds?

Does software RAID 1 (mirroring) in Windows 7 improve read speeds?

I’d like to set up RAID 1 to help protect my important documents (yes, yes, I know it’s not a backup), but performance is also important to me. As I understand it, RAID 1 should theoretically be able to improve my read speeds by n times, where n is the number of disks.

Is…

Fix: How to install RAID drivers on already installed Windows 7? #fix #solution #development

How to install RAID drivers on already installed Windows 7?

64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate

6GB RAM

Intel i7 920

Intel X25-M SSD 80GB 2,5″

Club 3D Radeon HD5750

GA-EX58-UD4P Motherboard

I’ve been running fine with Windows 7 installed on the SSD. I wanted to create an mirrored Raid-1 setup for backups using two hard disks, so I ordered two Samsung HD203WI.

This motherboard supports two different RAID…

Solution: What's the difference between RAID 1 software mirroring and Fake RAID? #answer #solution #it

What’s the difference between RAID 1 software mirroring and Fake RAID?

I’ve just ordered two new hard drives for my main desktop and a copy of Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. I’d like to do a clean install of Windows 7 onto the new drives (leaving my old Windows XP Professional boot partition around for a while in case something goes disastrously wrong, etc.). I want to have them set up in…

A tale of a little SOHO infrastructure upgrade

We use a little QNAP magic black box to backup our Macs over the network.  Over time it has also become a part of our internet connection, keeping copies of files we download so if we need them again we don't have to download them multiple times.  That's been quite useful with 4 iOS devices around the place and app updates arriving thick and fast.

I noticed, somewhat belatedly, the hard disk in the QNAP was almost full the other day.  I grabbed one of these Western Digital Red drives designed to be used for this sort of device to give us a bit more space.  The process seems to be to mirror the drive using Raid-1 and then transplant the new drive in to replace the old and hey presto, nothing up my sleeve, things should just pick up where you left off, just with more space to play with.