Hi Adam,

Adam McKenna wrote:

> You need at least 3 disks to do raid 5, and 4 to do 0+1.  Since
> he mentioned that he only has two disks, and that they are "striped",
> it's pretty likely that he's talking about raid 0.

oops.  sorry, you are right...it was 4:20 AM...
(kernel back trace: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff just kidding :)

>  (BTW, what is raid 3?  I've never heard of that.)

RAID Level 3 is 3 disks spanned and 1 dedicated disk for ecc
parity data.
(I live in Japan and I see a lot of RAID 3 advertised in
 magazines/ads etc, don't know if its popular though.)

BTW, found a diagram:

 http://info.berkeley.edu/courses/is257/f99/Lecture11_257/sld010.htm

Cheers,

jamie

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