Windows server 2008 raid 3

During this process the Disk Management graphical view will list the disks as Formatting and then Resynching. The amount of time these phases will take depends on the size of the volumes in question. Once the process is complete the status will change to Healthy and the RAID 5 volume is ready for use. DiskPart may be launched either from a command prompt or a Run dialog simply by typing diskpart.

The first step in the configuration process is to identify the disks attached to the system using the list disk command:. For the purposes of this chapter disks 1, 2 and 3 will be used to create a RAID 5 configuration. Each of these disks needs to be converted to dynamic disks before the configuration can proceed. This is achieved by selecting each disk in turn and executing the convert dynamic command:.

Once the disks have been converted to dynamic disks the next step is to create the RAID 5 volume using the create volume raid command. If this value is omitted the volume will be sized to match the smallest contiguous block of unallocated space on the designated disk drives:.

This can take a considerable amount of time depending on the size of the volume. During this process, the status of the volume will be listed as Rebuild when the list volume command is executed:.

Once the resynch is complete the volume status will change to Healthy at which point the volume may be formatted the RAW type listed above indicates the volume has yet to be formatted. The volume may be formatted using the format command as follows:. Can you tell me more about the block sizes? I thought the OS defines the block size when creating the partition.

Wouldn't Windows set the block size of all 4 unallocated drives to the same size when creating the RAID? Michal, I made a modification to my original post. The edit is in bold. Does this add any insight into the problem? Any help is greatly appreciated. Have you found physical sector size? Block size physical sector size - minimal allocation space on hardware layer, file system block size minimal allocation space on software layer, sometimes called by cluster size, NTFS minimal allocation unit — Michal Sokolowski.

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Which there isn't an OS installed because that is what I am trying to accomplish. Any suggestions will be appreciated as I do need to get this server up and running. Remove From My Forums. Asked by:. Archived Forums. File Services and Storage.

Sign in to vote. Windows Server has an awful "bug" or "defect" that requires a full RAID rebuild or regeneration after a system failure system freeze or loss of power.

Given that this results in loss of data, this is an unacceptable shortcoming of Server software RAID.