Expandable RAID5 Help?

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    Mizzery85 Member

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    I kind of know how all the RAID's work, but the implemenation of them and using them im semi-confused on. I have 4x 1.5TB drives. I want to set up an expandable RAID 5 array.

    Does anyone know how to do this?

    My motherboard can do RAID 0, 1, 10, 5. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit RC.

    Thanks!
     
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    demented brave Master Guru

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    you should really talk to your doctor about AID5.

    really though, there should be a raid setup menu after the post screen, i think on mine i push ctl+I to get to it. or i think you can use the intel raid utility from windows.
     
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    Well i have the raid set up and its working fine, but how do i add drives to the array?
     
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    Can't be done using the software RAID on the mobo. Only dedicated hardware RAID controller with Online Capacity Expansion feature (also called Dynamic Array Expansion) are capable of "expandable RAID."
     
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    Well I just read the manual and it's saying I can expand by marking the drive as a "spare drive" then adding it to he array... Is that how it works?
     
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