RE: Redundancy speed and space?

1999-03-10 Thread Bruno Prior
> > a) With my three partitions (666.2, 1001.5, 532.6mb each) What can I setup > > to have the most space total? (Was it RAID 4 or 5 that worked w/ three > > disks? and would I get access to the ~2 gig total?) > make a raid0 array with your two smaller parts. the size will me close to > your bi

Re: Redundancy speed and space?

1999-03-09 Thread m. allan noah
no raid level will give you access to all your disk space AND give you redundancy at the same time. raid1,4, and 5 all give redundancy, at the loss of some disk space. these three levels also need the partitions to be close to the same size, otherwise the extra space is wasted. what is most impo