Hi there,
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Warren Young wrote:
> Steve Chadsey wrote:
> > I have 4 9GB drives, and it appears that it has mirrored half of that,
> > leaving me with around 18GB usable. From the Multi-Disk-HOWTO, it seems
> > I've got RAID 1, or possibly 5. But, I'm not entirely sure.
>
> It's not RAID-5. With RAID-5, you lose one disk in the array, so with 4
> nines, you should see 27 GB or so of disk space.
It could be RAID-5 with one hot spare.
Regards,
Corin
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