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spooble · 12-19-2008, 10:08 AM

You can't create a RAID 5 with less than 3 disks. A 2 disk RAID 5 would essentially be RAID 0... Striped with no parity. I think your only option is to backup the data somewhere else, or get a 4th drive. I don't know of any utility that can create a raid array without formatting the drives.

12-19-2008, 10:08 AM	#9
spooble Palmetto State Herf Crew Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Chad Location: SC Posts: 277 Trading: (58)	Re: Anyone here have experience with RAID You can't create a RAID 5 with less than 3 disks. A 2 disk RAID 5 would essentially be RAID 0... Striped with no parity. I think your only option is to backup the data somewhere else, or get a 4th drive. I don't know of any utility that can create a raid array without formatting the drives.