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  1. 14th Jul 2006 05:11 #1
    Kairo
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    Im working on a machine with only three harddrives and I am wanting to use them in a striped array. My question is, is there any way possible I can have striping with redundancy useing only three drives? I know of Raid 01, but Im told there must be four drives.
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    If you have a controller that supports it, RAID 5 will give you striping with parity which will give you redundancy, BUT you will sacrifice 1 drive's storage space to do so.

    e.g - (3) 250GB drives in a RAID 5 array = 500GB storage space. It is fault tolerant and even if one of the drives fails you will not lose your data.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks#RAID_5
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    I hope you're not including your OS/Boot drive in that list. It should be separate (best fault tolerance for it would probably be Mirroring).

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