Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:48:05PM +0000, ognjen Bezanov wrote: >> After Setting up my RAID5 Array (4x 40gb drives) i got 120GB free space >> and everything seemed ok, then after restart i was told that i had a >> failure on a non-existant drive and the array rebuilt itself, not a big >> deal in itself. > > Forgive me if I'm wrong, but surely you shouldn't have 120GB on your > RAID5 device. That means there's no redundancy / fail safe.
No, there is redundancy - he can lose a drive and not lose any data. What there isn't is a hot spare. This is beneficial, but not required. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
