On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 01:15, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Don't know where you got the "typically 5 disks" bit from. RAID5 > costs you one drive's worth of capacity. Also, if I were to set up a > 5-disk RAID5 for critical data, I'd go with 4 active disks, plus one > spare.
I've noticed that 5 disks seems inexplicably more common than 4 or 6 disks for RAID-5, but no-one seems to have an explanation for it. I think that some people think that the "5" in RAID-5 means 5 disks... ;) -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
