Is this possible?

[cdubb]

I have been told that I can rebuild a Windows server by pulling one if its drives(RAID5) and putting it in a know "good" server. After the drive rebuilds, I must then be returned the drive to the server it was removed from and reboot. Don't seehow it is possible, but I want to know if anyone besides this one person has heard of it or done it...

 

[xxzab]

I dont belive it works with raid 5. I have done it on raid 1 because the data is the same on both drives. Raid 5 has parts of data on 3+ drives.

Eric
Whirlpool Corp.

 

[markdmac]

As stated above this will not work with a single drive. If you have three drives in the array then you would need at least 2 of them.

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[cdubb]

There are 4 drives in the array.

 

[58sniper]

Some clarification: You would need all but one of the drives
to get valid RAID 5 use. RAID 5 stores the data on all but one of the drives, and the CRC checksum data on the last. Don't confuse this with a drive only having CRC data on it. That's not the case. CRC data appears on all of the drives. But you can lose ONE drive from a RAID 5 array, and the controller can usually recover by rebuilding the missing data & CRC checksums.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
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[markdmac]

Pat is correct. As I stated above I was assuming a three drive array, thus requireing two drives.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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