RAID 5 arrays are used for many applications because they are for the most part cost-effective and provide a level of fault tolerance not provided by some other levels of RAID. As with any RAID level, RAID 5 can experience many different types of problems. This article will provide a brief discussion of some of the problems causing RAID 5 failure and how data recovery can work to solve these problems.
Problems That Can Cause RAID 5 Failure
Bad Sectors
A RAID 5 can fail due to bad sectors on any of the disks in the array. This can force the array to go offline.































