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From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>
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Subject: Re: RAID5
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On Monday,  3 September 2001 at 14:27:13 -0400, Chris BeHanna wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Ronan Lucio wrote:
>
>> Hi Friends,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your answers.
>>
>> Once more to confirm:
>> So, If I have 3 HDs with 36 Gb each, I will have 72 Gb of
>> avaliable space and I one of them breake, the computer will
>> continues working in another one until I have replace it? Ok?
>
>     Yes, but write performance will be absolutely horrible until you
> replace the broken drive and rebuild the volume.

No, this is not correct.  Write performance is better when one drive
is down.  Reliability isn't :-)

Greg
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