On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:51:01AM -0500, Jason Frisvold wrote:
> Well, there are a few reasons..  We have a system with 4 8G drives..  If we
> use one for root and one to mirror that root, we have 2 drives left.
> Now, if we raid those 2 remaining drives (RAID5) we get about 12 Gigs of space
> available...

I'm confused; what does RAID5 on just two drives get you?  One
drive, and you're still dead.  I would have thought that (in this
case) just striping would have been the way to go...

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> Jason H. Frisvold
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> Engineering Dept.
> Penteledata
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