RAID volumes, physical & logical drives

bannerdog · 11-26-2008, 01:46 PM

Hello,

I am new to RAID. I am about to setup two drives to be used as a RAID 0 volume.

[Incidently, my motherboard uses the Intel ICH9R southbridge, although this is probably irrelevant.]

My question is this: How will the RAID volume appear to Windows XP? As a physical drive?

The bottom line is, if I want multiple logical drives on my system, do I create a single RAID volume (which appears as a physical drive to the OS), and create partitions and logical drives on the RAID volume, or do I create a seperate RAID volume (in the BIOS) for each logical drive that I want?

Thanks!

bannerdog · 11-26-2008, 04:59 PM

I'm going to assume that the RAID volume may be treated by the OS as a single hard drive. That's the most straight forward - and transparent - approach (for the RAID driver/south bridge chipset to present an API allowing a RAID volume to be manipulated as a single drive), and seems almost certainly the one taken.

In the unlikely event that I'm wrong, I'll find out right away.

11-26-2008, 01:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
bannerdog Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 2 OS: Windows XP SP3	RAID volumes, physical & logical drives Hello, I am new to RAID. I am about to setup two drives to be used as a RAID 0 volume. [Incidently, my motherboard uses the Intel ICH9R southbridge, although this is probably irrelevant.] My question is this: How will the RAID volume appear to Windows XP? As a physical drive? The bottom line is, if I want multiple logical drives on my system, do I create a single RAID volume (which appears as a physical drive to the OS), and create partitions and logical drives on the RAID volume, or do I create a seperate RAID volume (in the BIOS) for each logical drive that I want? Thanks!

11-26-2008, 04:59 PM	#2 (permalink)
bannerdog Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 2 OS: Windows XP SP3	Re: RAID volumes, physical & logical drives I'm going to assume that the RAID volume may be treated by the OS as a single hard drive. That's the most straight forward - and transparent - approach (for the RAID driver/south bridge chipset to present an API allowing a RAID volume to be manipulated as a single drive), and seems almost certainly the one taken. In the unlikely event that I'm wrong, I'll find out right away.