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by praveen_gurudath

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sir
i want to know who to do a simple hardware mirroring, by using 2 (two) hdd. if you can send tips with some snapshot i will be helpfull to me.
and what is diffrence between hardware & software mirroring

thanking you

praveen

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by bfilmfan

To perform hardware mirroring, you will need a hard disk controller card capable of performing RAID.

For software, that is built into some OS systems such as Windows, Unix and some Linux flavors

What OS are we discussing and what hardware?

I would recommend an overiew of RAID from Webopedia:

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html

by wdeklerk

Buddy, I think U R Sitting their with W2K and a bunch of HDD. To start make test, setup three HDD in a pc, Then, right click my computer, goto management, goto disk management. then Right click on the two clean drives, my suggestions is to convert both to Dynamic drives. After that right click the drive and follow the instructions

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