<quote who="Howard Lowndes">

> If I have a RAID 5 set of 3 drives, and 1 drive fails, does that screw up
> my data or will it still run on 2 drives after it has sorted itself out.

It'll be fine. Until one of the other drives carks it.

> Must I be including a hot spare?  I know I should, but must I?

No, but yes, you should. :)

- Jeff

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