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windows raid implementation

I am looking for a bit of background about how windows software raid works.

If I have four disks and raid 5 three of them, using windows software raid, and then have the windows instalation on the remining disk. Will the raid 5 set up still be available if the windows disk is formated and windows reinstaled?

Secondly if I partition the disks can I raid them indipendantly. I.e If I have tree disks and partion them so they each have an 10GB and 50GB partion can I raid the 10GB together indepandantly of the 50GB so I would have two raid 5 disks on three drives. All using windows raid tools.

Hope that makes sense

Andy

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magicmonkey007

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Thanks for the answer.

Quick question, why using Soft RAID when a Hardware controller is not too painful costwise ? RAID5 Software will impact notably your performance

->Partly curiosity, and I don't have a raid config I can purposfully crash.
Also I'm looking after an older server that's going to be upgraded soon so don't want to spend the money buying bits for it.

Thanks again

Froggy_chris

make sense :)
but for production sensitive machine, hardware raid is definitively the choice..

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