Can you have 3 drives in RAID 0?

Raid 0 requires 2+ drives and any number after that so 3, 6, or 9 drives will work. Max sequential throughput performance for RAID 0 is the media rate of your drive x n (number of drives), max IOPs is IOPs per disk x n (number of drives), so what brendon said is incorrect as the performance will be about 33% better.

Can RAID 0 have more than 2 drives?

In theory yes, more drives in a raid0 would lead to higher performance because the load is shared over more drives. However in practice you would be limited by the the bandwidth of the raid controller, the CPU and memory performance and similar.

Which RAID is best for 3 drives?

Selecting the Best RAID Level

RAID Level	Redundancy	Minimum Disk Drives
RAID 1E	Yes	3
RAID 10	Yes	4
RAID 5	Yes	3
RAID 5EE	Yes	4

Can you do raid with 3 drives?

RAID 5 requires a minimum of 3 drives, and will recover data if one drive fails, but compared to RAID 1, RAID 5 offers greater write performance.

How many drives can you run in RAID 0?

two drives
RAID 0 requires a minimum of two drives and the total capacity of the drives in the array are combined into a single volume, due to the way data is distributed. Two 1TB drives paired together in a striped RAID 0 configuration, for example, will be recognized as a single, 2TB volume.

Can you RAID 0 different drives?

A RAID 0 can be created with disks of differing sizes, but the storage space added to the array by each disk is limited to the size of the smallest disk. This can be true and will be true for most RAID0 implementations.

How many drives can you have in RAID 0?

Which RAID should I choose?

For general raw performance for pretty much any kind of workload, RAID 1 and 10 are excellent choices. RAID 1 by itself is a two disk system that doesn’t get a huge performance boost, but it wouldn’t likely be used in a large array, anyway. RAID 5/50. For heavy read workloads, RAID 5/50 provide very good performance.