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Another Stupid Microsoft Windows issue

I was trying to create a mirror disk in MS Windows XP.. It seems that Micro$oft does not want you to be able to do software mirrors in Windows XP. How freaking stupid is that? They let you create a stripe but not a mirror:

They even have a page about using mirrored volumes in Windows XP, but there is a note in there

Mirrored volumes are not available on computers running Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, or Windows XP 64-Bit Edition.

that totally sucks. It basically means you have to get a hardware raid device to do mirroring or upgrade to a Windows Server version. Leave it to Micro$oft to leave out a ability that pretty much all other desktop OS' have built in to them. Not to mention they don't have SSH either, but that is for another time.