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Appreciate the assistance on this, really helpful, i was there and wanted to make sure i was in the right direction, seeing thats its just a softward raid array. Thanks &nbsp;
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Havent done servers in awhile..seeing that im a networking engineer. Wanted to refresh the correct procedures on after installing windows 2003 Server and our security policies. I have 6 additional SCSI drives that i need to setup a RAID 5 on...would welcome any assistance, checklist, instruction guidances on this...a visual step by step would be nice too if available. &nbsp;
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Havent done servers in awhile..seeing that im a networking engineer. Wanted to refresh the correct procedures on after installing windows 2003 Server and our security policies. I have 6 additional SCSI drives that i need to setup a RAID 5 on...would welcome any assistance, checklist, instruction guidances on this...a visual step by step would be nice too if available.  

Setting Raid 5 on Dell PowerEdge 2850

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Windows Server 2003

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