Allan Xu's questions

I am deciding on RAID level and one feature (requirement) I like to have is to be able to (have the freedom) detach one of the RAID HDDs, plug it as a USB disk to my laptop and read/backup/recover its data.

This way I know I am NOT dealing with some special disk format that makes the data available only with the RAID controller.

I know RAID5 fails my requirements. If I take one of the HDDs, I can't use its data, unless I go through an epic challenge.

• Can RAID 1 satisfy my requirement?

• Can Windows Disk management mirroring satisfy my requirement? If yes, it is the same with all version of windows?

Windows 2012 R2:

I am deciding on a RAID 1 (Mirroring in Windows terminology) implementation. I understand I have two options included in Windows:

• Storage Space Mirroring
• Disk Management Mirroring

How does Storage Space compare Mirroring to Disk Management Mirroring?

Using Windows Server 2012 R2:

My application creates many temp files in a service account's temp folder:

C:\Users\SVC_ACCT\AppData\Local\Temp\

I need to build a PowerShell script that cleans the content of the temp folder every night, outside of busy hours.

Before I build the script, I wonder if there is such command line that I can reliably schedule it every night?

I need a comprehensive and complex set of performance counters in windows performance monitor. At this point every time that I use performance monitor, I have to add the counters, one by one. Is there any way to save the counter set and load it at the later use? Thank you,