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Raid 5

Scenario:
A compter having 3 hdd, Raid 5 configured(H/W raid). os loaded any os.

Question:

1: will the computer boot to OS if
one of the HDD is removed (only 2 of the hdd is connected) ?
Tags: hardware
Updated - 2nd Aug 2010

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Yes it should boot, but it will be slow because it will need to calculate the missing data from the parity stripe...
3rd Aug 2010

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vjsh 4th Aug 2010
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