From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 10:36:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EDBE16A4D1 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:36:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.mcmanis.com (www.mcmanis.com [66.125.189.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3821C43D39 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:36:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cmcmanis@mcmanis.com) Received: (qmail 37924 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2004 18:46:22 -0000 Received: from home.mcmanis.com (HELO manowar.mcmanis.com) (66.125.189.30) by www.mcmanis.com with SMTP; 3 Mar 2004 18:46:22 -0000 Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20040303103714.02d64d90@66.125.189.29> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:39:14 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Chuck McManis In-Reply-To: <200403031453.49069.danny@ricin.com> References: <40452715.5030304@mindcore.net> <20040303140216.U99563@guldivar.globalwire.se> <200403031453.49069.danny@ricin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: Stefan Cars Subject: Re: 1 processor vs. 2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 18:36:05 -0000 At 05:53 AM 3/3/2004, Danny Pansters wrote: >RAID5 on 3 disks? That's useless. Its only mostly useless. You can't mirror (RAID-1) three drives, so if you want some resiliency you can use RAID-5 and give up one disk to parity and get two disks worth of data. You could even do RAID4 on three disks. 'course 4 disks is generally the minimum most people talk about, but its not completely useless. --Chuck