Jebidia

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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 know has horrific write speeds...I don't need a lecture on why I'm choosing RAID 5, just looking for someone with insight to my question.
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I'm not sure if Windows 10 will run on a software RAID 5, that maybe why it's greyed out. You also need to convert the disks to dynamic.

Thinking about it a little more... You probably can do the software raid 5, but you may need to boot into a Windows Install or recovery media to convert them to dynamic.



*Some more Google-Foo* Windows can't boot from a dynamic disk, so in short Windows OS can't be on a software RAID 5.

Jebidia

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That file for my mobo contains the attached...not even sure how to install that:
 

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Neemobeer

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Those are storage controller drivers, they're probably already installed. They would be listed in Device Manager under "Storage Controllers"
 

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Just FYI, I thought I'd try the REFS files system on the parity RAID as I read some said there was a performance bump. Spent about a 1/2 hour and every single time it said a program was accessing the drive and it couldn't complete the action, but with NTFS it went through fine...I rebooted a few times...who know, but I'm leaving it as is and I do appreciate your time.
 

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