Vista does not support RAID or Volume Striping

After four hours, I just got off the phone with Monica, a Microsoft
Professional Support Engineer who stated that RAID and Volume Striping were
only supported under Vista Ultimate, although the options were offered under
the other Vista versions, they were not supported.

What a frustration and a let down!

Arthur

Why RAID is (usually) a Terrible Idea
http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles?&id=29

RAID Explained
http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles.php?id=24

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


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"Arthur" wrote:

After four hours, I just got off the phone with Monica, a Microsoft
Professional Support Engineer who stated that RAID and Volume Striping were
only supported under Vista Ultimate, although the options were offered under
the other Vista versions, they were not supported.

What a frustration and a let down!

Arthur

Software raid is never a good idea. If you need RAID get a Vista compatible
RAID controller card. Then it won't matter what version of Vista you use.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


"Arthur" <> wrote in message
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> After four hours, I just got off the phone with Monica, a Microsoft
> Professional Support Engineer who stated that RAID and Volume Striping
> were only supported under Vista Ultimate, although the options were
> offered under the other Vista versions, they were not supported.
>
> What a frustration and a let down!
>
> Arthur

I have and tried both onboard Gigabyte P35DS3R motherboard RAID controllers:
Intel ICH9R and Gigabyte's own (both Vista certified).

When any of these are enabled, Vista will not boot, period. The MS
Professional Support Engineer could not make it work either and declared
RAID and/or Volume Striping was only supported under Vista Ultimate.


"Kerry Brown" <*a*m> wrote in message
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> Software raid is never a good idea. If you need RAID get a Vista
> compatible RAID controller card. Then it won't matter what version of
> Vista you use.
>
> --
> Kerry Brown
> Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
> http://www.vistahelp.ca
>
>
> "Arthur" <> wrote in message
> news:A6A57E24-736A-48AA-A215-...
>> After four hours, I just got off the phone with Monica, a Microsoft
>> Professional Support Engineer who stated that RAID and Volume Striping
>> were only supported under Vista Ultimate, although the options were
>> offered under the other Vista versions, they were not supported.
>>
>> What a frustration and a let down!
>>
>> Arthur
>

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <> wrote in message
news:003CDFE8-22E7-4CE4-BB7A-
> Why RAID is (usually) a Terrible Idea
> http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles?&id=29
>
> RAID Explained
> http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles.php?id=24



I would not recommend it to muppets.

ss.

Thanks Carey, but I think that I am in one of the situations wher RAID 0
would be beneficial: video editing (large files). SATA 3Gb/s provides 60MB/s
from any single drive and the total throughput only over struping over 5
drives; I am attempting to stripe a volume over two identical drives to get
120MB/s throughput for video editing.

Does that make sense?


"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <> wrote in message
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> Why RAID is (usually) a Terrible Idea
> http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles?&id=29
>
> RAID Explained
> http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles.php?id=24
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "Arthur" wrote:
>
> After four hours, I just got off the phone with Monica, a Microsoft
> Professional Support Engineer who stated that RAID and Volume Striping
> were
> only supported under Vista Ultimate, although the options were offered
> under
> the other Vista versions, they were not supported.
>
> What a frustration and a let down!
>
> Arthur
>

My Dell XPS 410 has RAID implimented in the BIOS (raid 0 striped) and is
running Vista Home premium.

Perhaps this is not 'Vista' supporting the RAID but the mother board.

Vista reports that the device is 'ARRAY' rather than the actual hardware
identifications of the two drives. Again this could be a result of the BIOS
doing the RAID stuff.

I would think that RAID at the BIOS or hardware card level would be
transparent to the operating system.

Michael

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"Arthur" <> wrote in message
news:A6A57E24-736A-48AA-A215-...
> After four hours, I just got off the phone with Monica, a Microsoft
> Professional Support Engineer who stated that RAID and Volume Striping
> were only supported under Vista Ultimate, although the options were
> offered under the other Vista versions, they were not supported.
>
> What a frustration and a let down!
>
> Arthur

In article <A6A57E24-736A-48AA-A215->,
says...
> After four hours, I just got off the phone with Monica, a Microsoft
> Professional Support Engineer who stated that RAID and Volume Striping were
> only supported under Vista Ultimate, although the options were offered under
> the other Vista versions, they were not supported.
>
> What a frustration and a let down!

You really should be using RAID on a controller card, not using Windows
to make the RAID for you. Soft RAID is not a good idea on any platform.

RAID controller cards are cheap and the nice thing is that the cards are
supported under Vista - any version.

--

Leythos
- Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
- Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" is like calling a
drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"
(remove 999 for proper email address)

Hi,

There are two basic ways to implement a RAID solution, software and
hardware. For a software solution, the operating system must support it. For
a hardware solution, the operating system is immaterial.

In the software mode, an OS like Vista Ultimate or XP Pro must be installed
to support striping or disk spanning. It sees two or more physical disks and
handles the necessary configuration to implement the desired array.

In hardware mode, the components and their drivers handle the configuration.
The operating system only sees the one volume and handles it like it would
any single drive, even if it's a multi-disk RAID5. For this type of RAID
solution, any OS can be installed.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Arthur" <> wrote in message
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> After four hours, I just got off the phone with Monica, a Microsoft
> Professional Support Engineer who stated that RAID and Volume Striping
> were only supported under Vista Ultimate, although the options were
> offered under the other Vista versions, they were not supported.
>
> What a frustration and a let down!
>
> Arthur

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <> wrote in message
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> Why RAID is (usually) a Terrible Idea
> http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles?&id=29

I and most others I know have seen huge increases in boot time performance,
as well application load speeds. Night and day difference usually. As for it
being trouble prone or problematic for reliability, it's no more so than any
multiple drive system. Not for the non-savvy user, but you don't have to be
an certfied IT pro either. My twin 74gig raptors get Ghosted to a 1 Gig NAS
device nightly. 2 years without failure. They also get cooled properly. If
one did fail, it'd be back on line and imaged within an hour from the spare
I keep on hand. Any critical work or data files don't go to the RAID0, they
go to a 500Gig SATA data drive on the same system which also gets Ghosted
nightly. Anyone who says RAID0 nets virtually zero speed gain is just plain
wrong. Now software RAID, that's a waste of time.