Single disk from RAID5 set contain data?

somewhatdamaged · 26 Aug 2010 at 09:26

I’m selling a HP SAS drive from a RAID5 set. Will the drive contain any data as the server contained confidential information? Or is it impossible to get data from a single drive?

thanks

lurkio · 26 Aug 2010 at 11:07

RAID 5 lays the data across at least 3 disks
So an individual drive is pretty much useless ( as in they could not read anything usefull)

edscdk · 26 Aug 2010 at 11:09

lol have you removed 1 drive from every raid set in the server room?

you know if there is a hot spare you can take that as well?

somewhatdamaged · 26 Aug 2010 at 19:14

LOL no i haven't, one of the disks was smaller than the others so it's been upgraded and isn't needed any longer.