On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Albert Frenz <y...@zockbar.de> wrote:
> hi there, > > maybe this is a stupid question, yet i haven't found an answer anywhere ;) > let say i got 3x 1,5tb hdds, can i create equal partitions out of each and > make a raid5 out of it? sure the safety would drop, but that is not that > important to me. with roughly 500gb partitions and the raid5 forumla of > n-1*smallest drive i should be able to get 4tb storage instead of 3tb when > using 3x 1,5tb in a normal raid5. > > thanks for you answers > > greetings > -- > 3 drives is enough to make a raidz already but you can use slices...yes, i have a friend who did that. he had 2 1.5tb drives 2 1tb drives and a 2 tb drive so he made 2 raidz's one with 5 1tb slices 1 with 3 500gb slices > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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