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What the minimum drive requirements to create a RAID 5 volume?

April 26, 2017create drive minimum raid requirements volume

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What the minimum drive requirements to create a RAID 5 volume?

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RAID 5 volume sets require a minimum of at least three (3) hard drives (preferably of the same capacity) to create and maintain a RAID 5 volume. If one drive is of a lower capacity than the others, the RAID controller (whether hardware or software) will treat every hard drive in the array as though it were of the same lower capacity and will establish the volume accordingly.