Raid will work, it will use 500GB from each drive, the parity for redundancy will use 500GB so it will show in My computer as 1 1000 GB ( 1TB ) drive. You can partition that any way you like - raid only sets up the drive, partitioning drive assignments and formatting are up to you just like with a single drive.
RAID5 Configuration on ASUS M4A79XTD EVO
I am about ready to set up a RAID5 configuration on my ASUS M4A79XTD EVO Motherboard which uses the SB750 Chipset from AMD. I will be using the following drives:
1. Seagate Barracuda 750GB SATA2 32MB Cache Hard Drive (Master Drive)
2. Western Digital Caviar Green 640GB SATA2 32MB Cache Hard Drive (Slave 1)
3. Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB SATA2 32MB Cache Hard Drive (Slave 2)
How should i go about setting up the following drives? Does RAID5 use the capacity of the smallest drive or combine them? How much hard drive space will be allocated to my C drive? Will RAID5 work with the above specifications? Thanx for any help you can provide!!!
1. Seagate Barracuda 750GB SATA2 32MB Cache Hard Drive (Master Drive)
2. Western Digital Caviar Green 640GB SATA2 32MB Cache Hard Drive (Slave 1)
3. Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB SATA2 32MB Cache Hard Drive (Slave 2)
How should i go about setting up the following drives? Does RAID5 use the capacity of the smallest drive or combine them? How much hard drive space will be allocated to my C drive? Will RAID5 work with the above specifications? Thanx for any help you can provide!!!
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