Windows 10: Adding drives to a raid 5 array using Windows storage spaces

I want to use an 8 bay jabod as a archive, I'm hoping to use windows storage space to create the raid array. I will be populating 4 bays of the jabod for now and want to know if I can add more drive down the line to increase the storage in the array.

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Can I use a RAID 1 drive array as my Windows boot drive?

I am not going to use hardware RAID. I want to use Windows Storage Spaces to create the RAID 1 array from two identical hard drives.

Do I install Windows on the first hard drive then create the RAID array using Storage Spaces?

When I create the RAID array will Windows automatically mirror the Windows installation including the boot partition to the second drive so the RAID array is bootable?

Are their any steps unique to this setup that I must follow when installing Windows or creating the RAID array so that the RAID array will be bootable?

 

Recreating RAID 5 Array AMD


Poked around in the AMD RAIDXpert utility (didn't have to use it with W7) and it will let me make a RAID 0, 1, or just a bunch of disks array but not RAID 5 or 10. Mobo is an Asus M4A79T Deluxe that has an AMD SB750 RAID controller that supports RAID 0,1, 5, and 10. If nothing else I could go with a RAID 1 array with a hot spare and have fault tolerance but I'd prefer to get RAID 5 working for both the performance and fault tolerance.

Found How To Set Up a RAID 5 Array in Windows 8 and Linux - Maximum PC and it seams like this might be the same as doing a RAID 5 array according to Storage Spaces: FAQ - Windows Help
. I know I never had to use it in W7 to create the array I just defined it in the controller and then in disk management it showed up as a single unallocated drive with ~1.8TB of space. Now when I define the array in the controller I still see the 3 separate disks one 1 unallocated, 1 uninitialized, and 1 offline in disk management.

EDIT: looks like storage spaces is a software RAID utility and since the mobo supports RAID 5 via hardware it would be better to figure out why its not allowing me to create the RAID 5 array.

 

Creating a RAID-5 using Storage Spaces in Windows 11

the overhead associated with storing the parity information is the equivalent to one full disk.

Example, a RAID 5 array contains three 1 TB hard disks, then the array's usable capacity will be 2 TB, not 3 TB. Each drive loses some space to the indexing.

there's more and more overhead as you increase drives... the overhead increases exponentially, unless I misread your question...