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Raid 5 Question
We have a old dell server 1300 deminsion. It has 3 Quantum (roughly 8-9 gigs each) disks plugged into a scsi card. This is setup as a raid-5 array. Someone the other day jumped on the server and saw the C was 9 GIGs instead of 18. Any ideas why?
FYI, uses a Perc 2 driver.
FYI, uses a Perc 2 driver.
Are there other partitions?
Are you sure it's not a RAID 1 with Hot Spare?
Are you sure it's not a RAID 1 with Hot Spare?
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How could i tell if its raid 1 with hot spare
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Oh you mean mirroring
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http://www.ibeast.com/content/tools/RaidCalc/RaidCalc.asp
3 9 gig disks in a raid 5 would yield 18 gigs roughly. if your C is 9 gigs, its either partitioned out of the available 18, or its not really in a 5 like you thought it was.