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I'm getting Windows-7 in the next couple days to install on a home-built 2-disk system. The motherboard supports fake-raid, so I'll be setting up some RAID0 and RAID1 volumes. My hope is to make the OS super-fast to boot. Nevertheless, I want to have some mechanism to recover the OS within 20-40 minutes of a disk getting replaced.

Here is my proposed partition setup:

001GB WinRe Recovery Environment RAID1
100GB Main OS RAID0  Fastest
012GB Swap Disk RAID0  Next fastest
360GB Data, configurations, apps RAID1

Can anyone comment on whether this makes sense? Secondly, when one drive dies & gets replaced, how would I use WinRe (Recovery) & install DVD to re-establish the Main OS.

Some relevant links:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproinstall/thread/51442b60-c2dc-457d-92a7-a49cbbcbbf2f

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproinstall/thread/196d4a95-9ae0-442e-a946-dd4cf282a970

How do you recreate the System Recovery environment in Windows 7?

What's the difference between RAID 1 software mirroring and Fake RAID?

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Glorfindel
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Rolnik
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Based on your config above, it looks like you are running eight drives. Since you're already using a bit of $ worth of hardware, maybe instead consider a Windows software RAID1 of SSDs for a recoverable, fast Windows system drive.

phoebus
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