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How do I setup a RAID 5 Array?

wnied

wnied

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How do I create a RAID 5 setup for a server? Just curious as I would like to learn how to do it.

Thanks in advance,
wnied
 
Get a RAID card, bunch of drives, configure & install. Which raid card have you looked at or any ? Also which drive would you like to use ?
 
You need at least 3 drives.
And you need a RAID card.
AMI, Adpatec, and Tekram all make RAID cards.
The array is created in the cards BIOS(in some cases you can alter it through software afterwards though).
Say you have 3 18 GB HD's, that will give you something like ~35 GB of useable space.
 
Something to ass, since no one mentioned it. All of the drives have to have the same size partition on different physical disks to create a RAID5 drive. So, if you have 4 drives that each are 7GB, 5GB, 10GB, and 7GB, and you wanted to use all of the drives, then you would create a 5GB partition on the other larger drives to create about a 14GB RAID5 drive. RAID5 uses 1/3 or that equivelant to 1 of the partitions of the RAID set of the total disk space for parity information.
 
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