Setting up a RAID5 on Windows 2003

This type of arrangement requires a minimum of 3 Disks, These are divided into stripes (how the RAID0) the difference is that of the 3 Stripes one is used for parity and only the other two are used to store data. This increases RAID speed-0, but with the redundancy that parity allows … in practice the array is immune to failures of a single disk but not as much space is wasted as in the case of a RAID 0+1.

Setting up a RAID1 on Windows 2003

It is also known as “Mirror disc” and consists of the Operating System recording the same data simultaneously on both discs, which provides greater reliability since if either of the two individual disks fails, The arrangement continues to operate without losing information, because it is essentially duplicated.