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Re: Re: OT Raid Setup for MP3 Server



At 11:07 29.04.2002 +0000, you wrote:
>from memory Raid 5 uses parity to obtain the fault tolerant aspect,
>but how do you work out what the logical drive capacity is likely to
>be?

On Raid5 systems what you loose is exactely one drives's worth..  (I run 8
120GB WD disks on a 3ware raid controller, and I get 840GB usable space.)
(BTW the raid controller has independent channels for each drive, so I get
hotswapping!)

            Anders


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