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I'm considering putting 8 500GB (or 250GB) drives into RAID 5. &nbsp;Can these drives be partitioned so that even though the whole set is RAID 5, windows will see them as C and D (or more)? &nbsp;A logical drive within the set, if that makes more sense.
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I'm considering putting 8 500GB (or 250GB) drives into RAID 5.  Can these drives be partitioned so that even though the whole set is RAID 5, windows will see them as C and D (or more)?  A logical drive within the set, if that makes more sense.

Partitioning RAID 5

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