Hello Desire, On 10/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you had a RAID5 array with 3 drives, and one of them crashed, you should > be able to continue using the array in a degraded mode with just 2 drives. > Once you have a replacement drive, you should be able to rebuild the array > by using your usual software raid management tools (eg. mdadm).
Yeah, you're right there. RAID 5 requires at least 3 drives and 1 of them is the parity. But RAID 5 only allows 1 crashed drive at a time when there is already no parity drive available. Else or if the new drive is not fully sync then another drive crashed, then there's no way to recover the data for that matter. _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
