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Old April 27th 08, 09:11 PM posted to comp.arch.storage
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Windows XP
eMachines computer with AMD Athlon processor

I have recenly bought a Cavalry 2x500GB external storage with built-in
RAID capability. I am new to RAID configurations, even though not for
computers in general.

Cavalry drive came with SteelVine Manager software that lets us
configure the drive in various configurations. Since my original
intent was to obtain 100% redundancy, I chose RAID 1 config and went
through the process. Now Windows recognizes the drive as one 500 GB
hard drive.

I have saved bunch of files (80 GB) so far.

My question is how do I know for a fact the data is being written to
both the drives? I don't want to use Cavalry's software, but use some
external method to verify. Is there a way to verify this by using
Windows tools or any external (preferably free) utilities?

Thank you very much for your time.
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Old April 28th 08, 04:09 PM posted to comp.arch.storage
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Windows XP
eMachines computer with AMD Athlon processor

I have recenly bought a Cavalry 2x500GB external storage with built-in
RAID capability. I am new to RAID configurations, even though not for
computers in general.

Cavalry drive came with SteelVine Manager software that lets us
configure the drive in various configurations. Since my original
intent was to obtain 100% redundancy, I chose RAID 1 config and went
through the process. Now Windows recognizes the drive as one 500 GB
hard drive.

I have saved bunch of files (80 GB) so far.

My question is how do I know for a fact the data is being written to
both the drives? I don't want to use Cavalry's software, but use some
external method to verify. Is there a way to verify this by using
Windows tools or any external (preferably free) utilities?

Thank you very much for your time.


Pull the drives out and connect them one at a time to your computer
directly.

XP is smart enough that it will find any DOS looking partitions even if
there's some metadata written to those drives by the controller.

If it's a RAID1 array, you should just be able to see your data on each
drive.

Here's the catch- If this is really good RAID controller, it may notice
data changed between the drives if you mounted them under windows and
changed anything, then fail them if you run them together again since they
no longer match.

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Old April 28th 08, 04:30 PM posted to comp.arch.storage
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On Apr 28, 10:09*am, Cydrome Leader wrote:


Pull the drives out and connect them one at a time to your computer
directly.


Opening the box voids warranty. But, I guess I have no other choice.
Thanks for your message.
 




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