It will take some time to perform the data destruction test. But I agree that this is worth the effort if it will help. And after all the whole point of building a RAID5 is to have certainty that your test scenario results in 0 data loss. So I should place a large amount of data on the RAID and then remove drive 0 (device 10000) correct? I suppose this will be the physical drive located on IDE channel 0 "master"?
Before I do this, let me relay the answer to your other questions:
1. Model: 4000-2 (4 drive IDE: "Laser")
2. OS: 3.4.807 (US)
Hardware: 2.0.1
BIOS: 2.0.252
128mb RAM (bumped from the install 64mb)
3. Hard Drives:
4x ST3320620A 320GB 7200.10 Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive
These are $94.99/each at
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148139
4. Ready to use in approx 1hr 50 minutes (drives formatted). RAID5 completed in 23 hours (built RAID5 backup disk).
Only catch was when a person installs fresh hard drives, if they don't have an OS that supports the larger size drives.. they must install the OS once to allow formatting the drives... and install it again (a second upgrade of the same version) to allow the OS to put those files Phoenix mentioned on the drive(s).
1. Debug info reports each drive is formatted with 312570880 KB (298GB if we divide the KB by 1024 to get the MB, and another 1024 to get GB)
2. Debug info reports the RAID5 "large data protection disk" is at 919768520 KB (894GB)
2a. Interestingly, View Disk Status reports the RAID5 - Large data protection disk at Total<MB>=898,211 Free<MB>897,313 which seems to be lower (876GB)
** So I will let you know if this actually has the capability to allow a person to store a single 800GB video stream ... where even if one of the drives blows up, still show the entire video without a hiccup.