From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 17 05:56:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA09562 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 05:56:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from shadows.aeon.net (bsdhw@shadows.aeon.net [194.100.41.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA09537 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 05:55:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdhw@shadows.aeon.net) Received: (from bsdhw@localhost) by shadows.aeon.net (8.8.7/8.8.3) id PAA11906 for hardware@freebsd.org; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 15:52:37 +0200 (EET) From: mika ruohotie Message-Id: <199710171352.PAA11906@shadows.aeon.net> Subject: raid To: hardware@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 15:52:37 +0200 (EET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk uh, is there documentation exactly how much more disk space one gains when plugging another drive into raid system. generally i'm interested in raid5. 3 drives is the minimum, right? then 4th drive gives the hot spare. how about 5th? 6th? 7th? a graph would be nice. what about unstandard raid's (6 7 8 9 10, some of those might not even exist, but i believe i've seen at least 6 7 and 10) mickey