Setting up a NAS

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Originally Posted by Kreth

Excellent post. One quibble... you need 3 drives to do RAID 5. I've never tried setting it up with just 2. Wouldn't that basically be a pre-degraded array, for lack of a better term?
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RAID 5 requires at a minimum 3 drives. One can fail and it will operate in a degraded mode (not recommended). With just two drives either RAID 0 or RAID 1. If 2 drives are the options - go with the mirrord drives (RAID 1). I can se my post was what I typed and not what I was thinking