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Creating A RAID 5 Array

Creating A RAID 5 Array


You now must reboot your system. Back in Windows, launch the management console and go to disk management. Here, all disk drives intended to be used in our RAID 5 array need to be converted to dynamic drives. After that, right-clicking one of the drives will open a context menu that allows a new volume to be created:


After modifying the files as shown above, WindowsXP is capable of supporting RAID 5 in software.


We used four Western Digital WD740 Raptor drives for our test array.


The following option windows...


... do not differ whether you create an array or a simple volume.

As soon as Windows finishes creating the array, the RAID 5 will be available under Windows just as any other hard drive. That also include the option to grant individual or group-based permissions and share folders.


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Deleted profile 05/11/2008 4:45 AM
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Can I grow an array made this way? That is, add another disk without having to lose the data currently held on the raid?
op365 06/28/2008 3:17 AM
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From past experience with Hardware RAID, you would have to first backup your data and then break the RAID and put in the higher capacity drives and create a new container.
The feature that you want/asking about is called X-RAID

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