raid 5

  1. How do you recover data/repair from a drive failure in Windows 10 Storage Spaces?

    How do you recover data/repair from a drive failure in Windows 10 Storage Spaces? I have 4X 4TB drives configured as RAID 1 (mirroring). I assumed that meant that a copy of the data was also stored on the other drives since only 8TB of the 16TB is available. I ID'd the failing drive and...
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    Windows 7 Z600 data recovery

    My Z600 PC has now slowed down. I suspect through lack of maintenance. I downloaded tune up software, but it stops halfway through. I have quite a large movie collection on the internal hard drives, (Set up in raid 5) (c drive and d drive) I Tried to add a new external HDD with a view of cutting...
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    Windows 10 Parity vs RAID 5

    I see a RAID 5 option in the disk manager in my Windows 10 pro 64bit os but it's greyed out , but I also see if could do a Parity RAID in storage space which it will allow me to do. So I'm curious why RAID 5 is greyed out and is there an advantage to getting RAID 5 to work vs Parity, which I...
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    Silicon Image 3114 SATA RAID

    So, Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe with Silicon Image 3114 SATA Raid on motherboard... Got everything up and running on Windows 10 x32 (x64 won't load, I think it does see enough RAM) thanks to Neemobeer. In order to boot into Windows I must configure something on the SI RAID controller. If I don't...
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    Windows 10 RAID 5, hardware or software

    Thanks to my discovery of this forum my video server is well on its way to being set-up (Thanks to Neemobeer). My next question has to do with setting up a RAID 5 array. As I understand RAID it provides some level of data redundancy and a higher read speed than a plain old JBOD (spanning)...
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    Windows 10 Confused - Want to set up storage space - All look like 1 drive

    An answer to this question may clear up my confusion: Can the C: drive be part of a pool, having all drives (including the c: drive) look like 1 drive? If so, how do I do that? I created a storage space, but it made me set it up as drive D:, and I see no way to combine it with C:. To clarify...
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    Raid 5

    My question is I have 3 hard disk and configured with raid 5 if one hard disk fails will data be continue to written on other two hard disk and. will user be able to access or retrieve old data until we put the new hard disk.
  8. Another RAID 5 fails?

    i have googled the web but could not come up with any answers. I have a windows softwareraid "5" (yes plz hate me for this) with 3x3TB disks, one disk recensently failed. I have just replaced the bad disk with a new one. But i have still no way to add the new disk to the "old" raid, and the bad...
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    Windows 7 6TB external drives (Raid 5) can't be recognized after copying >2TB files

    I have 4x2TB external hard drives in a raid5 configuration, I converted it to GPT disk using Disk Magagement in Windows 7. It showed basic disk, NTFS, 1 partition, 5.40TB, which is normal. It seemed pretty well at first. But after copying files >2TB to this drive, some files were lost and cann't...
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    What Is RAID

    The article covers Advantages of RAID, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 10 or 1+0, RAID 5, Software vs. Hardware RAID and Drive Selection What is RAID?
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    Windows 7 Moving windows 7 from RAID 5 to SSD

    Ok, So I put together a new HTPC and purchased 4 2TB drives which gave me a total of 6 TB after setting them up as RAID 5. I created two volumes from that RAID, one is 2 TB and the other is 4TB. Windows 7 is currently installed on the 2TB volume, though it only occupies about 17Gb. I...
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    Windows 7 RAID 5 on Win 7 - worked fine but suddenly wouldn't boot

    Hi! I've got a ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 card and a fresh install of Win 7. I've got four 1Tb disks, one with the OS-install and three disks set to RAID 5. I just set BIOS to "use SATA disks as RAID", installed Win 7 on the first disk and then used the software that comes with the motherboard (Ctrl+I...
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    Windows 7 Diskmanager???

    All, Im trying to setup a Soft RAID 5 on my Win7RC install. Disk Manager hates me, it takes forever to connect to the Virtual Disk Service, and then it sits there and never loads the disk information. When and if it ever loads I cannot create a RAID 5 set even though I have upgraded by 3 500...
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    Windows Vista W2003-64 raid-5 fails on Vista-64 Ultimate

    Friends, I have a windows 2003 sever 64bit raid-5 volume that doesn't get healthy on Vista Ultimate 64 bit. There are 3 Hds: 1) 50G System, 100G RAID-5 2) 100G RAID-5, 50G-DISTRIBUTED VOLUME 3) 100G RAID-5, 50G-DISTRIBUTED VOLUME Everything was created on w2003, but it has crashed...