The total partion size well IT would be 5 disc raid 5 + hostspare = 10tb, but (n-1 - hotspare) = (10tb-2tb-2tb_hotspare) = 6 tb right??? It been a bit, since I looked at raid 5 math thanks Justin
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:04 PM, justino garcia <[email protected]>wrote: > I was thinking, raid 5 4 disc, plus one hotspare. Each disc is 2tb. Not > sure if our dell perc can do raid 6, but I have a different raid card, taht > will do raid 1, for the OS, two disk maybe 500 gb each. > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Joseph L. Casale < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> No, but that's not a very safe setup. >> >> Given those huge discs, if one sh!ts the bed your rebuild will be so long >> you might lose another during this time. >> Use r6 or approach it with a different layout. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 11:33 AM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Ntfs raid 5 2 tb wd drives X 5 >> >> I going to restore a backup to a ntfs 5 disk raid five array, one disk >> will hot spare. Each disk 2 tb wd drives raid class drive. >> >> Any issues with ntfs volume this size? >> Windows 2k3 X64 >> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
