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Date:      Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:39:14 -0800
From:      Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Stefan Cars <stefan@snowfall.se>
Subject:   Re: 1 processor vs. 2
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.2.20040303103714.02d64d90@66.125.189.29>
In-Reply-To: <200403031453.49069.danny@ricin.com>
References:  <BC6A0533.1DC4C%joe@jwebmedia.com> <40452715.5030304@mindcore.net> <20040303140216.U99563@guldivar.globalwire.se> <200403031453.49069.danny@ricin.com>

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At 05:53 AM 3/3/2004, Danny Pansters wrote:
>RAID5 on 3 disks? That's useless.

Its only mostly useless. You can't mirror (RAID-1) three drives, so if you 
want some resiliency you can use RAID-5 and give up one disk to parity and 
get two disks worth of data.
You could even do RAID4 on three disks. 'course 4 disks is generally the 
minimum most people talk about, but its not completely useless.

--Chuck



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