I'll teach you how to build a soft RAID5 guide

About the hardware to build RAID5 method, we in the content of the previous section has already explained to everybody! Next we will continue to deepen the study and grasp the formation of soft RAID5, the following content for the previous chapter of the extension, interested friends can understand!

I didn't just have four hard drives installed, but this server is to install a total of 8 hard drives, originally I advised this installed friend, the remaining four hard drives do not set up raid, which is easy to install and use, but he has to make these four hard drives also constitute a raid, and the group will be group RAID5, What RAID0, RAID1 absolutely do not, but this motherboard supports only 4 hard drives to build raid, and I can not find 32-bit support RAID5 RAID card, it is estimated that this card does not exist, I understand that all support RAID5 mode of the cards are basically 64-bit, Can not be used on the PC motherboard, and this 64-bit card at every turn dare to thousands of yuan a piece, who bought the Ah, forget, or from the actual situation to find a way to it, I suggest he then group a soft RAID5 bar, he agreed.

So I first found a hard drive expansion card with 4 SATA interfaces, a 32-bit hard drive expansion card that plugs into a normal PCI slot on the PC's motherboard and plugs into a normal PCI slot on the PC's motherboard. Because of a common RAID card that supports RAID0 and RAID1 modes, I need a hard drive expansion card to build a soft RAID5, not with other RAID features, but there are no more than four SATA hard drive expansion cards available on the market, only this RAID card, no way I had to do it the old-fashioned way. By a small program from the raid card manufacturer, the kernel of the raid card is burned again, and the core of the raid card is overwritten with the kernel of the hard drive expansion card, which turns it into a pure hard drive expansion card without any RAID capabilities.

When we use this hard drive expansion card to connect four new hard drives to the server and install the system and driver, we can start to assemble the soft RAID5.

This soft RAID5 is implemented through Windows's own software RAID feature, so it must be done after installing the Windows operating system, Windows2000 and windowshttp://www.aliyun.com/zixun/ Aggregation/19058.html ">2003 all provide this function, the procedure is very similar, if possible, I suggest you use windows2003 to complete this work." Click the right mouse button on disk 1 and bring up the "Welcome to create Volume Wizard" and click Next.

Windows designers in this very simply, click Next immediately after the "Select volume Type" dialog box, which impressively there are raid-5 volumes, what other options are, there is no need to elaborate, directly selected raid-5 volume, and then click Next.

Here we add the four disk one by one on the left to the right, representing the addition of the newly installed four 250G hard drive to the new RAID5 disk array volume to be built, while adding the hard drive to see the capacity of the total number of volumes on the right bottom volume increasing.