conceptional question / usb HDD / Raid
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 6:30 pm
Hey folks,
with interest i had a look at thix small box.
My wish is to use this box as video player and NAS with around 1 TB capacity of storage running at raid 1.
My idea was to attach 2 x 1 TB usb HDD to this fitpc and do a mirror raid. the operating system itself i'd like to put on a SSD internal hdd.
As i'd like to run win2003 or 2008 on that box i saw that raid - due to dynamic disc issues on usb devices with windows - it's not possible out of the box (only with a workaround: attaching the disk via sata to a workstation before and convert to dynamic volume, then put to usb enclusure and attach to pc via usb).
As i guess i'm not the only one thinking in windows world of a raid: is there any way u can recommend for a software running on windows to make a mirror raid over 2 usb attached volumes with adequat performance (not consuming 100% cpu load) without this workaround to?
What speed results can I expect?
Many thanks for input or ideas how to realize it in a better way
µrAn
with interest i had a look at thix small box.
My wish is to use this box as video player and NAS with around 1 TB capacity of storage running at raid 1.
My idea was to attach 2 x 1 TB usb HDD to this fitpc and do a mirror raid. the operating system itself i'd like to put on a SSD internal hdd.
As i'd like to run win2003 or 2008 on that box i saw that raid - due to dynamic disc issues on usb devices with windows - it's not possible out of the box (only with a workaround: attaching the disk via sata to a workstation before and convert to dynamic volume, then put to usb enclusure and attach to pc via usb).
As i guess i'm not the only one thinking in windows world of a raid: is there any way u can recommend for a software running on windows to make a mirror raid over 2 usb attached volumes with adequat performance (not consuming 100% cpu load) without this workaround to?
What speed results can I expect?
Many thanks for input or ideas how to realize it in a better way
µrAn