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fliptw
DBB DemiGod
Posts: 6458 Joined: Sat Oct 24, 1998 2:01 amLocation: Calgary Alberta Canada
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by fliptw Tue Aug 10, 2004 9:43 pm
three SCSI 35 GB HD I be made of, One 70 gig drive I show to the world. what am I?
Arch
DBB Captain
Posts: 988 Joined: Thu Nov 05, 1998 12:01 pm
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by Arch Tue Aug 10, 2004 9:57 pm
Umm, with RAID5 and 3 discs you get 2/3 of the total space as the parity bits across all three drives eats up about that much space. Then again it could be RAID3, striping with a dedicated parity disk.
Tricord
DBB Alumni
Posts: 3394 Joined: Thu Nov 05, 1998 12:01 pm
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by Tricord Wed Aug 11, 2004 2:51 am
How about a badly partitioned RAID0 array?
Avder
DBB Material Defender
Posts: 4926 Joined: Sat Oct 09, 1999 2:01 amLocation: Moorhead, MN
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by Avder Wed Aug 11, 2004 3:14 am
fliptw wrote: what am I?
Prohibitivly expensive.
STRESSTEST
DBB DemiGod
Posts: 6574 Joined: Sun Nov 21, 1999 3:01 am
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by STRESSTEST Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:21 am
Interesting post. I don't think I've ever seen a riddle in here before, and one that would get away with it, never. YEa, 5
fliptw
DBB DemiGod
Posts: 6458 Joined: Sat Oct 24, 1998 2:01 amLocation: Calgary Alberta Canada
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by fliptw Wed Aug 11, 2004 3:22 pm
According to IBM's ServerRAID manager, its level 5.
