I am usually renting dedicated servers under Windows Server 2003/2008. Those servers are said to be "hardware RAID1"; yet I am wondering how can I verify this property of the server remotely?
As far I can see, disks appears as classical IDE disk from the windows disk manager, and it does not tell me anything about the RAID properties of the disk.
Probably, you can't. Hence the "hardware"-ness of the setup – the drives appear to the operating system as a single IDE drive.
You'd need to install the dedicated vendor disk management tools. eg Dell used to replace the disk manager MMC snap in with one that showed all this stuff.
Windows itself does not care, whether it's a 10 disk RAID 10 or a single one.