Win 2000 Disk and Storage management.

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Sticky Mick

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Does anyone have any indepth knowledge of this?

It's one of the exersises in my course work to create and manage a striped or spanned drive config. in Win 2000. I just can't get my head round it.

Some of the scenarios they set have been a nightmare.

There's e-beers in it for you.
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What do you need to know mate. I've used Windows based Striping/Mirroring quite a bit.
 
How did you get on with this? did you get it sorted. If not I will have a look through some old books and see if i can find out for you. I have a rough idea off the top of my head but not defo so will have to check.
 
Fun thing to have done, after the fact, would have been for members to give their answers and have XMS scrutenize em :p
 
Cheers Tox, I am now gonna have to dig out my books and check on my thoughts before I comment, but heh, anything to assisit learning, might even try to find all the cd's that accompany the books (could take until may as they are not in this country) and let you have them but only if you promise to study hard and do well in exams :p
 
Hee heee:p I completely forgot about this thread:p

I did complete it, but whether or not it's correct I dunno yet.

With regards to question 1:

"The C: partition fills one of the 2Gb disks, but there are two additional 2Gb disks and one 1Gb disk available. You would like to create a striped volume with these available disks, what is the largest striped volume you could get using these disks? Explain why."

A striped volume (RAID0) writes a little bit of info of a file to each drive. So if you've got 4x drives in a striped set (RAID0) and save a 4Gb file, the file would be split into 1Gb chunks and 1Gb would be written to each drive.

Now the answer I gave to the above question was:

"The largest striped volume available would be 6Gb.

This is because all the drives in a striped set (RAID0) would need to be the same capacity as the C: drive."

The above answer is based on my thoughts that if you saved a 3Gb file it would be split into 1Gb chunks. 1 of these chunks would fill the 1Gb drive, which would surely cause problems in the file system if you try to save anything else that's 3Gb in size.

Does this sound logical?
 
I can see where you are coming from mate , but i still need todig my books out and see if i can find the answer.
 
Most of the ideas that I got came from a big article in a mag that I get regularly "MicroMart".

Some surprising info in it as well.

Did you know that RAID was invented way back in 1978?

And that there are 9 different types of RAID levels?

RAID 0: Striped Set

RAID 1: Mirrored Set

RAID 3: Striped with Dedicated Parity

RAID 5: Striped Set with Distributed Parity

RAID 01: A Mirror of Stripes

RAID 10: A Stripe of Mirrors

RAID 50: A Stripe across Dedicated Parity RAID systems

RAID 51/RAID 53: A Mirror Stripe Set with Distributed Parity

RAID 100: A Stripe of a Stripe of Mirrors.

No wonder it's bluddy confusing:rolleyes:
 
yeah knew it had been out a while but was binned for some reason. Just goes to show how mistakes can be made eh.:p
 
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Well guys, got my certificate on Monday. It's now framed and and on the wall above my desk. Didn't hear anything about the answers that I gave about this, so I guess they were ok. Either that or they aint finished laughing yet:D
 
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