[PLUG] Hardware RAID

[Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

Non-linux-specific question:

My company has a few machines which act as servers for email, internet 
gateway, etc (running XP).  A recent drive failure prompted me to 
suggest RAID, even though I knew almost nothing about it.

I've now learned that (I think) we want RAID-1 (mirroring), and located 
a PCI card at CompUSA for about $60.  (Not interested in software RAID.) 
In general, is adding RAID-1 to a machine going to consist of plugging 
in the card, plugging the drives into the card (assuming that one is 
blank and formatted, and the other, identically-sized one, has our OS 
and data) and turning the machine on?

There's a lot of info online about the types of RAID and what's best for 
what, but can anyone point me to instructions on the easiest way to 
actually implement it?

Thanks,

Greg Helledy

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