I’m setting up Server 2003 for dynamic disk and tooling around with mirror/spanned volumes/raid-5 etc.
Heres the thing I know you need at least 3 physical drives for software RAID-5.
I just purchased a new 80gb drive, and have two other drives to add to the server making 3 hard drives.
The two other drives I have are relatively small ; 6 GB and 8GB.
Disk for raid:
80 GB
6GB
8GB
The problem is I think in order to create a Raid the OS needs to create an even spanned volume ie :
5 GB
5 GB
5 GB
Is this correct?
If so Im losing space allowed for my RAID -5, or is 3-5 GB spanned volume RAID-5 enough?
