![]() ![]() The array won't appear when Windows boots. We will know that something is wrong right at boot time. The best warning system is if we had moved the Desktop folder to the RAID. It still takes a couple of minutes to show up after boot, though, and some Windows 10 users don't check the Action Center notifications often. Windows 10 does it slightly better, by adding an exclamation mark on the notification. It wouldn't hurt if it had a bit more urgency. Strangely, in the case of a disk failure, both Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 take their time to report that something is wrong.Ī few minutes after we boot the PC, Windows 8.1 will show the Action Center flag, with a nonchalant "Check Storage Spaces for issues" message. If, however, a second drive fails before we replaced the first drive, all the files on the RAID will be irretrievably lost. If When one of the drives fails, the rest of the drives give us full access to our data. What happens when a drive on the RAID fails Now, whatever we save on the Desktop and in our Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos, etc. It's not a folder that we can move to the RAID.Īfter we cut our important folders, we right-click on the software RAID 5 and select "Paste." Then, we right-click on one of the selected folders and click on "Cut."Ĭaution! If the hidden folder AppData is visible on your system, do not select that folder. There, we Ctrl+click to select some of our personal folders or select them all with Ctrl+A. We just need to go to Local Disk C: -> Users -> (our username) - filod, in the example. Documents, Pictures, Music, even the Desktop will be much safer there than on the single Windows disk. So, it makes sense to have our personal folders on the RAID. When any of the three disks fails, we will still have access to all the data nothing will be lost. The primary reason to create a software RAID 5 is for the added data security. How to move our personal folders on the software RAID On the "This PC" folder, we will see it as one disk. If we had three 1TB drives and one 500GB drive for the array, the array's capacity would have been 500*(4-1)=1500GB.Īfter we click the Create storage space button, our software RAID 5 is ready. With three 1TB HDDs, it is 1*(3-1) = 2TB array. To calculate the array's capacity, we just need to take the smallest disk's capacity and multiply it by the number of drives minus one. On "Size," we see the size of the storage space. If we want, we can change the name, drive letter, or file system for the storage space. To create a software RAID 5, on resiliency type we select "Parity." The system will automatically detect the unformatted drives and select them. On the Storage Spaces window, we select the only option, "Create a new pool and storage space." ![]()
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