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echo: nthelp
to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: Geo
date: 2006-05-31 06:16:54
subject: Re: RAID in W2k3 - how to check it

From: "Geo" 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:447d16ec{at}w3.nls.net...

> The software mirroring in W2k3 (at least - haven't tried other versions)
> doesn't require the whole physical disk to be mirrored, you can create a
> partition of any size and mirror that to another partition of equal size,
on
> another disk. At least that's how I understood it. So basically, any new
> drive which is at least the same size as the original, should work.

It does, you can even mix scsi and ide/sata drives. I haven't tried
mirroring to an external USB drive but I bet you can do that as well.

Geo.

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