I’m in the process of setting up a Raid 1 mirror on SBS 2003.
After spending the last 2 days reading about RAID and the steps for implementing the software support for it on this platform, I’m confused.
I have two identical drives.
I’ve divided the first drive into 4 paritions:
One for the OS, one for data, one for user shares and a small one at the end for logs.
I converted this drive and it’s empty twin to Dynamic discs.
Now the directions say that I right-click on the Volume and choose “Add Mirror”.
I assumed this meant I would right-click on the gray part that represents the entire physical drive, because all the articles I’ve read on RAID refer to mirroring whole disks.
But the option doesn’t appear there. If I right click on each of the partitions in the first drive the “Add Mirror” option appears.
So I add the first parition and everything looks like it’s going OK. I go to add a mirror of the second parition to the second drive and there’s the yellow triangle with an exclamation point in it on the selection for the target drive.
No specific warning is listed anywhere, but I have to assume that some risk is present. It does, however, allow me to add the mirror, as well as the mirrors for the remaining 2 partitions.
Now the graph for the second drive looks identical to the first and all of the elements in it say they are “Resynching”.
The yellow triangle is present on the gray part of the graph which represents the whole drive.
So my questions are:
Am I doing anythig wrong?
Does RAID work with multi-paritioned drives?
If so, does doing it this way effect performance?
Will the yellow triangle go away when all the partitions are done sycning?
As I was adding mirrors to each partition the wizard gave me a choice of which drive to use for each one. Could I have the mirrors for different paritions on different drives?
If so, and the paritions are much smaller than the target drives, can I still use the remaining empty space on them?
Do pancakes grow on apple trees?
🙂
Thanks in advance for your help.
