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Creating a RAID-5 using Storage Spaces in Windows 11

I want to try the new Storage Spaces in Windows 11. Some years ago I bought an external enclosure with 5-bay for hard drives and also provide RAID 5 functionality out-of-the-box. It works pretty good ...
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RAID 5 bad sector / read error when rebuilding

Say I have a RAID 5 (Windows parity storage pool) and one drive fails. I will plug in a new one and start rebuilding. There are many people saying that if one of the remaining drives has a read ...
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Storage Spaces out of space

I'm using Windows 10 Enterprise. I have four identical 3TB disks set up in a Storage Space pool. Each disk shows up as providing 2.72 TB to the pool. I create a storage space with REFS and resiliency ...
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Win10 Storage Spaces - Missing capacity?

I'm confused. I have a "parity" Storage Space consisting of 4 x 3 TB drives in my Win10 file server (I think "parity" is roughly equivalent to RAID5). This should give me roughly 9 TB of usable ...
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How do I format a single raid 5 hard drive?

I'd like to know how to format a single former raid 5 hard drive If I boot up without the other raid 5 drives then Windows doesn't see it; it doesn't appear in Disk Management, or whilst booted into ...
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