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Raid 5 installation and testing
You did indeed set up your array correctly and after you reinserted your drive, all was restored. The only place the drive would have been not noticed was in the Computer Management, Manage Hard Drives window. Raid 5 is designed to still operate after the failure of a single drive... -
RAID Config question
I would not recommed running your OS off of a Raid5 array. While the RAID5 is great for files and programs, it will slow down your OS speed as it has to read information off or each and every drive of the array. The OS is always better off on a seperate drive or partition. If you are... -
Raid 5 on 6 disks
You are doing nothing wrong. RAID 5 takes about 1/3 for of the usable storage space for redundancy. I also was shocked at the space it required. The nice thing about RAID 5, if one of your hard drives dies, it can rebuild your valuable information off the remaining drives. Hope this helps... -
Raid 5 on 6 disks
You are doing nothing wrong. RAID 5 takes about 1/3 for of the usable storage space for redundancy. I also was shocked at the space it required. The nice thing about RAID 5, if one of your hard drives dies, it can rebuild your valuable information of the remaining drives. Hope this helps, Al :)
