Anyone here have experience with RAID

12-19-2008, 09:06 AM

the 3 1TB drives that i've got are the same size sector for sector, so I'm not worried about that

I've got two other SATA drives, one is 160GB and the other is 300GB...could i use those to complete my initial raid5 array....also I thought that in order to have the redundancy in RAID 5, you need a third disk. So if i've only got two drives initially there won't be any redundancy <---isn't this what happens when one drive fails anyways?

12-19-2008, 09:06 AM	#4
MrBucket101 Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Anyone here have experience with RAID the 3 1TB drives that i've got are the same size sector for sector, so I'm not worried about that I've got two other SATA drives, one is 160GB and the other is 300GB...could i use those to complete my initial raid5 array....also I thought that in order to have the redundancy in RAID 5, you need a third disk. So if i've only got two drives initially there won't be any redundancy <---isn't this what happens when one drive fails anyways? Last edited by MrBucket101; 12-19-2008 at 09:13 AM.