Software RAID-5 on the Sil3114
Well, I decided that I don't think there are any legal or ethical problems with hex editing my copy of XP, and I can report that XP Pro SP2 (with all the latest security updates from Microsoft) can, in fact, be easily modified to support software RAID-5, per the instructions on the web.
Now, my biggest concern is about the stability of the Silicon Image Sil3114 chipset SATA controller that I'm using to run 4 of the drives. There are reports that the Sil3114 can be flaky when used in a RAID. I'm hoping to avoid this issue, since I'm not using the controller's RAID (instead, the drives are arranged as JBOD and XP is handling the RAID). Even so I probably need to spend a few weeks copying data around and doing other random stuff to the drive to determine to my satisfaction that my data won't get corrupted.
More work. Ah well.
Now, my biggest concern is about the stability of the Silicon Image Sil3114 chipset SATA controller that I'm using to run 4 of the drives. There are reports that the Sil3114 can be flaky when used in a RAID. I'm hoping to avoid this issue, since I'm not using the controller's RAID (instead, the drives are arranged as JBOD and XP is handling the RAID). Even so I probably need to spend a few weeks copying data around and doing other random stuff to the drive to determine to my satisfaction that my data won't get corrupted.
More work. Ah well.
posted by Ang at 12:51 PM
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