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Partition Issues on RAID5 Setup

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by otaku_lord

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Hey Everyone,

ASUS M3N79-T Deluxe motherboard
(4) WD 1TB Caviar Black SATA drives

I am running Vista x64 Ultimate.

The issue is that I set up a 500GB primary partition for OS, games, Office, etc. I tried to set up the other 2.xTB of space into two 1TB drives but I was only given the option to format the volume into a 1.5TB and the rest is in a partition that I can't format or alter in any way.

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by nimmo

You can't setup a RAID 5 with two drives, you need at least three drives in to accomplish this. With two drives, you can stripe (RAID 0) or mirror them (RAID 1).

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