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Old 06-26-2008, 01:22 AM   #5 (permalink)
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To raid 0+1 (or 1+0) with hardware controllers you need 4 drives minimum. I don't know what you need for software raid though. A raid 5 is striping + parity, you need 3 drives and can be recovered if only 1 drive fails. It's all in RAID101.
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