<zitiere wer="Jonas Smedegaard"> > Frank Weißer wrote: >> <zitiere wer="Maximilian Wilhelm"> >> >>>RAID 5: (distributed space management) >>>=====================================>> * at least 3 disc (normally equal >>> size) >>> * If all disc have the same size >>> size(RAID) = (n - 1 / n) * disc size. >>> * If one disc failes, replace it and be happy. >>> >>>So you would have ~108GB useable space. >> >> >> hmm, i always thought 3,75*36GB would be something like 135GB ;-) > > Maybe it's just me, but how do you end up using 3,75? Are you perhaps > setting up a RAID consisting of 4,75 disks? > > (more likely you are quoting a different formula than the one you are > using).
Can't see that: (4 - 1/4) = 3.75 , isn't it, or the () have to be set in another way! ReadU Frank