MBR/Boot in RAID
Which drive in a RAID stripe contains the MBR? The first drive. Bonus: Which drive in a RAID stripe contains the boot sector? On a hardware RAID, no specific location. On a software RAID, the first drive. RAID5: In RAID5, if there are mostly zeros at the start of the volume, the parity block may contain an exact duplicate of the MBR/boot sector. For other parameters, check RAID 0 Recovery primer.