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To: "Matthew Dillon" <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with large disk. (> 1 TB)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:48:22 -0600
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"Matthew Dillon" <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>     Or, for example, you could take 12 160G disks, split each one into
>     two 80G partitions (say 'd' and 'e'), and the RAID-5 all the 'd'
>     partitions together into a 800G logical drive and RAID-5 all the
>     'e' partitions together into another 800G logical drive.

What's the advantage of doing this vs. one 800GB RAID5 volume on 6 of the
drives and another 800GB RAID5 volume on the other 6 drives?  Or was your
example just for illustration?



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